Deficit Quotes - Page 6

• The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.

  Jacob Lew

  School, Holiday, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  Nan Hayworth

  Smart, Commitment, Honor

  4 Copy quote

• will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

  Jim Ramstad

  Jobs, Growth, Economic

  4 Copy quote

• I realize that I can be with someone, but on a deeper level I'm not available to them at all. I have attention deficit disorder of the soul.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Soul, Levels, Attention

  6 Copy quote

• The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  War, Fighting, Poverty

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.101, Harvard University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs were quashed, the Savings and Loan program was trashed, the deficit was tripled, unions were busted, Housing and Urban Developing was in shambles, banks were closing, the military got lots of new toys, the religious right was strong, and AIDS was ignored.

  Kate Clinton

  Religious, Strong, Military

  4 Copy quote

• I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.

  Alan Greenspan

  Mean, Cutting, Might

  8 Copy quote

• the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

  Ouida

  Wall, Moving, Government

  5 Copy quote

• The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

  Bill Gates

  Justice, United States, Rich

  7 Copy quote

• It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let that thing build up to the point where our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for our period of time and our years at the helm.

  Walter Cronkite

  Cutting, Grandchildren, Years

  "CNN Newsnight" with Aaron Brown, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2003.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.

  Ann Coulter

  Talking, Two, Age

  18 Copy quote

• Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

  B. W. Powe

  Country, Fire, Greed

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The [budget] deficit isn't the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is.

  Cynthia Tucker

  People, Problem, Weak

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.

  Wanda Coleman

  Sleep, Erratic, Lifestyle

  9 Copy quote

• The problem with our deficit is not because Americans are taxed too little. The problem with the deficit is because Washington spends too much money. We have got to stop spending money we don't have.

  Paul Ryan

  Littles, Too Much, Problem

  'Monday show' with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. April 5, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.

  Michael Parenti

  Opportunity, Government, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, February 15, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an occupier. And what that is saying is we have more might than right, so we kind of have a kind of moral deficit disorder. And that's why a leader must lift us back to the higher ground, because at the end of the day what makes you strong is that you are believable, that as significant as might is, ultimately right is even stronger than might.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, War, Hero

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. February 21, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Rich Countries, Switzerland

  9 Copy quote

• My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Doctors, Add, Attention

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Running, Kindness, Might

  "Dr. Doom" by Stephen Mihm, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Bill Gross

  Gdp, Growth, Debt

  8 Copy quote

• For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.

  Herbert Stein

  Believe, Years, Office

  11 Copy quote

• [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.

  Paul Laxalt

  Numbers, People, Republican

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Victor Saul Navasky

  Our Society, Arena, Approach

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Years, Too Much

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source