Top 204 Deficits Quotes & Sayings

With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

Bilateral trade deficits are not evil; historically, better growth in the U.S. economy has led to larger trade deficits.

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term.

We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

Millennials are concerned with national debt and the deficits.

The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

You've got to analyze and figure out where your deficits are and go to work on them, and then sometimes, it's how you respond that makes you a great leader or not.

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

It seems to me there are good deficits and bad deficits. Now, we have a deficit that comes from the militarization of our society and our policy and our approach to the global arena.

The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits to soar. The U.S. dollar, which has become a mere corollary of government finance, is likely to survive the soaring deficits.

[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

More travel to America would lower our trade and budget deficits.

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals.

If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.

One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor are usually first on the chopping block.

I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic and financial stability. We need to talk about that.

We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.

Deficits are anathema to most Republicans. And Democrats widely believe that government spending should fall as the economy recovers.

The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

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

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

As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.

Governments create money and spend it into the economy by running budget deficits. The paper currency in your pocket is technically a government debt.

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.