Deficit Quotes - Page 5

• I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

  Bob Herbert

  Smell, Warfare, Complaining

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• President Obama inherited a one trillion dollar deficit courtesy of George Bush and turned it into a three trillion dollar deficit courtesy of Karl Marx!

  Michael Savage

  President, Dollars, Three

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• So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied. We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Race, Two

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• We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Dollars, Rising, Debt

  "Divine Debt Trumps All" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 20, 2009.

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• As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and emotional health. For example, new studies suggest that exposure to nature may reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and that it can improve all children's cognitive abilities and resistance to negative stresses and depression.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Stress, Emotional

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• Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%

  Narendra Modi

  Rain, Successful, Inflation

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• If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

  Bill Gates

  People, Income, Want

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• As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Long, Leaving

  "FACTBOX: Obama comments on economic issues". Reuters, www.reuters.com. November 26, 2008.

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• If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.

  Bill Maher

  Dumb, Looks, Paying Taxes

  "Coulter Exposes Maher As An Environmental Hypocrite". "Real Time with Bill Maher", www.newsbusters.org. July 9, 2011.

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• The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is to create money by printing it. The Treasury will have to sell bonds, and, in the absence of foreign buyers, the Fed will have to print the money to buy them. The consequence will be runaway inflation, increasing interest rates, recession, and inevitable tax increases on all Americans.

  Doug Casey

  Able, Way, Absence

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• Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

  Nelson Mandela

  Imagination, Imagine, Difficulty

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• With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression. Instead, Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And, when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity, since the only people who will have to pay them would be rich Republicans.

  Dick Morris

  Running, Cutting, Opposites

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• No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Country, Technology, Opportunity

  "Sheryl Sandberg Joins Global Women Leaders in Tech to Demand Gender Equality" by Musimbi Kanyoro, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2015.

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• We have a deficit of wonder right now.

  Tom Waits

  Wonder, Right Now

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• Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

  George Will

  Country, Money, Night

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• In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

  Temple Grandin

  Special, Too Much, Enough

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• There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Resources, Humans, Human Will

  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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• The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Thinking, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Cutting, Way, Reduction

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• Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Get Away, Taxes

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• Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

  George Noory

  Stress, Creating, Growing

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• Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, People, Addiction

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• We must create wealth and we must cut our deficits.

  Manuel Valls

  Cutting, Wealth

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• What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Responsibility, People, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Jobs, Real

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2006.

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