Top Deficits Quotes
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.
Craig Armstrong
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.
Dick Durbin
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Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron Paul 
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In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations.
Ron Kind
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Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.
Donald Evans
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
Xavier Becerra
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For one thing, one of the wonderful things that we now have is instead of the huge budget surpluses that President Clinton left us with, we now have these huge deficits that we're going to be facing into the future.
Geraldine Ferraro
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Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
William Vickrey
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Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
Jim Cooper
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But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from hundreds of billions of surpluses to hundreds of billions of deficits.
Chaka Fattah
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Franklin D. RooseveltRon PaulMike PenceJennifer GranholmDick WolfGeraldine FerraroMelissa BeanRon KindJohn W. SnowKarl RoveJonathan KozolRichard NealSherrod BrownDonald Evans
Chaka FattahXavier BecerraRobert C. SolomonWilliam VickreyJim CooperJohn SprattDick DurbinMichael CrapoHugh SideyLincoln ChafeeRichard LammCraig ArmstrongDavid HartmanTim Russert
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