Deficit Quotes - Page 15

• Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to set this up as a measure of success. Protecting the credit rating will not be easy The pace of fiscal consolidation will be co-ordinated with monetary policy. And we will protect Britain's credit rating and international reputation.

  George Osborne

  Cutting, Political, Pace

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• Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Want, Pay

  "CNN Means Business", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2012.

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• To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.

  Jack Valenti

  Russia, Risk, Bosnia

  "Public Endorses Uplifting Movies, Dole Tells Hollywood" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. July 31, 1996.

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• Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Country, Cutting, Iraq

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• We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.

  John Spratt

  Moving, High Heels, Years

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• I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

  Matthew McConaughey

  Meaningful, Jobs, Thinking

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• I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.

  Mark Kirk

  Running, Dream, Past

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden form of taxation. The real burden on the public is what government spends (and mandates others to spend). As I have said repeatedly, I would rather have government spend one trillion dollars with a deficit of a half a trillion than have government spend two trillion dollars with no deficit.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Cutting, Government

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• Online we have a compassion deficit

  Monica Lewinsky

  Compassion, Online

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• Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

  Paul A. Offit

  Heart, Blood, Vaccines

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• Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

  Phil Bredesen

  Real, Cutting, Growth

  "POLITICO Interview: Gov. Bredesen". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

  John Boozman

  Party, Thinking, Tea

  "Conservative Senator John Boozman Says No Thanks to Tea Party Caucus" by Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.

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• Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

  Brian Baird

  Taken, Cutting, Thinking

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• The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.

  Kurt Bills

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Attention, Disorder, Dyslexic

  "What I've Learned: Ozzy Osbourne" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 1, 2005.

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• If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Years, Wind

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932, Volume 1”, p.797, Best Books on

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• It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

  John McCain

  Party, Pro Life, Politics

  "Recruiting McCain to the Democratic Ticket". www.newsbusters.org.

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• Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force will get to work to determine the scope of the challenges facing Pennsylvania and begin to discuss how we can get Pennsylvania's fiscal house in order.

  Tom Wolf

  Cash Flow, Order, House

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Nov 26, 2014

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• One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Voice, Numbers

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Europe, Demand, France

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• Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...

  Ron Paul

  Military, Government, Lobbyists

  Ron Paul's speech at New Hampshire Homeschool Meet and Greet, www.youtube.com. September 30, 2007.

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• Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Needs, Debt, Shapes

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• One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

  Gary Bauer

  Compassion, Faces, Republican

  "How Republicans can become 'compassionate conservatives' again" by Gary Bauer, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2013.

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• We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Pain, Sacrifice, Class

  "Interview with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz" by John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Communication, Cutting, Technology

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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