Deficit Quotes - Page 13

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

  George Soros

  Running, Country, Europe

  "'You Need This Dirty Word, Euro Bonds'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz and Thomas Schulz, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2011.

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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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• 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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• By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.

  Dennis Hastert

  Strong, Cutting, Helping

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• ...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, Drawing, Vision

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• It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

  Bill Bradley

  Military, Numbers, Long

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• I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.

  Erskine Bowles

  Country, Cancer, Thinking

  "How US Can Avert Fiscal Cliff: 'We've Got Some Hope'". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. July 12, 2012.

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• This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we’ve got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it’s only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, ‘Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.’

  Judd Gregg

  Sorry, Years, Political

  "'We're Greece' in a Few Years: Sen. Gregg". www.cnbc.com. November 3, 2010.

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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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• 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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• The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

  Lee Klein

  Block, People, Perfect

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Country, Jobs, Fall

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Office, Debt, Facts

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

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Priorities, Growing, Path

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• My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

  Paloma Faith

  Bored, Desire, Attention

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• The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.

  Timothy Geithner

  Hurt, Recovery, Commitment

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

  Tim Kaine

  Growth, Way, Economic

  "State of the Union" with Ed Henry, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. January 2, 2011.

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• I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Issues, Risk

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• It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.

  Richard Louv

  School, Kids, Community

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• It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

  Richard Neal

  Running, People, Debt

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