Deficit Quotes - Page 19

• He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• [T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

  John Stossel

  Government, Balance, Want

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• In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Training

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• I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control.

  Stephen Harper

  Running, United States, Lines

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• Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

  Ted Nelson

  Thinking, Nuts, People

  "The Curse of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1995.

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• The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

  Paul Krugman

  Habit, Legitimacy, Ideology

  "Crisis of the Eurocrats" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. May 22, 2014.

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• A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Inspiring, Effort, Overcoming

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.115, Vintage

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• Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Land, Cities

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Air, President

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• If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Disappear Completely, Practice

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.

  Daniel T. Griswold

  Balance, Dollars, Saving

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• During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Government, Years

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• From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Views, Suffering, Attention

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• Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

  Paul Newman

  Baby, Sleep, Morality

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• In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.

  Lynne Truss

  Brother, Hands, Exclamation Marks

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• Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good reason: when people come here to fulfill their dreams - to study, invent, and contribute to our culture - they make our country a more attractive place for businesses to locate and create jobs for everyone. So let's get immigration reform done this year.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Jobs

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Phrases, Use

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• The greatest threat facing America today
  is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government,
  marked by shameless deficit spending and
  Federal Reserve currency devaluation.
  It is this one-two punch -
  Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow,
  and the Fed printing money to make up the difference -
  that threatens to impoverish us by further
  destroying the value of our dollars.

  Ron Paul

  America, Government, Printing Money

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• The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works closely with the local 'elites' to create 'deficits', 'uncertainty' and despair. It creates corruption scandals, and it even supports fake 'left' anti-government movements. And of course it is training and corrupting some key military cadres.

  Andre Vltchek

  Military, Media, Wings

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay. And the reason they're going to pay and the way they're going to pay, Bob, is this. We have a trade deficit now with Mexico of $58 billion a year. The wall is going to cost $10 billion a year. That's what it's going to cost. It's going to be a powerful wall. It's going to cost $10 billion.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Powerful, Years

  "The 9 toughest media interviews for Donald Trump". Interview with Bob Woodward, "Bob Woodward presses Trump on Mexico paying for border wall" (March 9, 20016), www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2016.

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• That the policies - from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in such a way that America, far from being one of the places people are running from, is a place people are going to come to and add jobs.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Jobs, Government

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• The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Shoes, People

  "As a society, are we losing our empathy?" by Catherine Conroy, www.irishtimes.com. January 30, 2017.

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• What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

  Barack Obama

  Shoes, People, Empathy

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• No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Men, Church

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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