Quotes of: Deficits Keyword

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

Hugh Sidey

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Grover Norquist

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

Jacob Lew

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

Alistair Darling

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.

Scott Peters

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

Martin Feldstein

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

Rob Woodall

I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.

John Bercow

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

Mike Ross

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

Bill Gates

Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Fron...

Mo Ibrahim

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Bill Gross

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Bob Inglis

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

Marty Meehan

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

Mikheil Saakashvili

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Vladimir Putin

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

William Vickrey

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

William Vickrey

... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115

My Beloved World

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