Deficit Quotes

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

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.

This is what Donald Trump understands. This is the trade deficit. We run a trade deficit of close to $800 billion a year.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.

A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things.

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

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.

I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or something your parents did.

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not.

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.