Deficit Quotes - Page 18

• We've been the foolish country for so long with this free trade, but it's not free trade because it's - you know, just doesn't work. I mean, it's not working. You look at the deficits we have.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Mean, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I supported the Korean Trade Agreement in 2011. They promised - when it was signed, President [Barak] Obama said it would increase our exports to Korea by $10 billion a year.That creates jobs in America.Since - last year, 2015, there was no increase, like instead of billions of dollars there was like a $100 million increase in our exports to Korea, whereas as their imports to us went up $12 billion, and our trade deficit increased 240 percent.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, America, Agreement

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• While Donald Trump said, well, our plan won't be exactly like the House Republican plan, the closer it is to that plan, the less likely it is to increase the deficit.

  Avik Roy

  House, Republican, Increase

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan that's likely to get traction in Congress.

  Avik Roy

  Thinking, Increase, Congress

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This movie [ Buried] is strange, because it's such an extraordinary situation, both as a character and as an actor. Both of us are going through an extraordinary situation at the same time, and it was odd. It was weird not having a co-star to cut away to for the most part. It just forces you to never have a deficit in the performance.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Stars, Character, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

  Tony Burke

  Government, Challenges, Debt

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.

  Rob Lowe

  Real, Media, Issues

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities and the socialization of our economy, commodity prices and interest rates will head skyward.

  Peter Schiff

  Commodity Prices, Weight, Dollars

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

  Alistair Darling

  Recovery, Cutting, Risk

  "The Tories got it totally wrong on the recession: now they're getting it wrong on the recovery" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

  Stephen Harper

  Needs, Canada, Economy

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

  Francois Hollande

  Years, Law, Constitution

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• Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

  Gary Johnson

  Opportunity, Common Sense, Political

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• In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

  Joe Klein

  Long, Political, Facts

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• Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Blessing, Needs

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• In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.

  Susana Martinez

  Together, Mexico, Legislature

  "Paul Ryan Speaks at Republican National Convention". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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• All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.

  Mike Pence

  White, People, House

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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