Deficit Quotes - Page 10

• We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen into debt in such a pervasive way that social security is compromised, we are living longer than we lived before and in order to secure the kind of healthcare that we need without the deficits on our budget, we need really strong leadership that is focused only on the plethora of issues and not just the traditional concerns that have driven us to the ballot box.

  T. D. Jakes

  Strong, Order, America

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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• Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Insane, Half, Canada

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's no such thing as a trade deficit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Trade

  P.J. O'Rourke (2010). “DON'T VOTE - It Just Encourages the Bastards”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

  Frances O'Grady

  Economic Models, Profound, Challenges

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• I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Kids, Leaving, Canada

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Recovery, Cutting

  "President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2016.

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• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  Rand Paul

  Addresses, Sides, Republican

  "Ron Paul and Rand Paul discuss Politics and Healthcare on CNN". "CNN American Morning" with Kiran Chetry, www.ronpaul.com. August 6, 2009.

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• I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

  Barack Obama

  Want, Next, Add

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• We have deficits with everybody. Who do we have a positive with?

  Donald Trump

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Given [Donald] Trump`s polling deficit, his reluctance for ads until very recently in his near total lack of any ground game to speak off, it came as a surprise today that according to The Washington Post, Trump has stopped holding high-dollar fund-raising events, relying almost exclusively on online donations, which, of course, tend to be much smaller.

  Chris Hayes

  Games, Events, Dollars

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations of power are normalized. Under such conditions, those who hold power accountable are reviewed as treasonous while critically engaged young people are denounced as un-American.

  Henry Giroux

  Educational, Stupid, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on the path to eliminating the national debt. When President Obama came into office, he inherited the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. He has cut the deficit by two-thirds.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, Cutting, Two

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stars, Learning, Science

  "Richard P. Feynman, Teacher". David L. Goodstein, "Physics Today", Volume 42, No. 2, February 1989.

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• I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

  Andrew Young

  Attention, Disorder, Dyslexic

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• To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

  Rob Woodall

  President, Watches, Republican

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• The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

  Dick Wolf

  Trying, Friendly, Employment

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• These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Technology, Able, Today

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• Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.

  Juan Williams

  Running, Party, Independent

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• The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

  Ron White

  Smart, School, Mean

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• When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

  Allen West

  Country, Years, Serious

  "West clarifies controversial 'get the hell out' message to Democrats". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

  Tom Udall

  Military, War, Impact

  "Libya Policy Is a Slippery Slope" by Sen. Tom Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Hurt, People, Too Much

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Evil, Debt

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things.

  Stephanie Ruhle

  Two, Different, Trade

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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