Top Deficit Quotes
I'm not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Ronald Reagan
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.
Nigel Farage
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.
Chris Christie
As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.
Jim Costa
So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.
Robert C. Solomon
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What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
Ed Parker 
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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.
Jennifer Granholm
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The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.
Martin Feldstein
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Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.
Martin Feldstein
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But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.
Martin Feldstein
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
Gordon Brown
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If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.
Christina Romer
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To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.
Martin Feldstein
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Ronald ReaganBarack ObamaSarah PalinRon PaulJennifer GranholmDavid KortenMike JohannsMelissa BeanThomas Haden ChurchJoni MitchellDaniel Keys MoranNoam ChomskyMartin FeldsteinJim RyunJames Bovard
Cliff StearnsJeff MillerJohn W. SnowKarl RoveJim CostaMarty MeehanJoan BladesPeter DeFazioRick LarsenRandy NeugebauerSimon CowellRoger MahonyKen MehlmanXavier BecerraRobert C. Solomon
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