#deficit

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#absorb #address #afford #class #continue

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #billion #breaks #certainly #could

The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high. ↗

— Brad Sherman

#federal #forgot #mars #mention #moon

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#back #critical #debt #deficit #down

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ↗

— John Spratt

#budget #deficits #developed #diminishing #during

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#bill #bills #deficit #deficit reduction #farm

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#based #because #call #constitution #coordinate

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend. ↗

— Jean Chretien

#canadians #country #decide #deficit #deficit reduction

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#fiscal-policy #national-debt #political-philosophy #scope-of-government #political

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#both #bring #deficits #home #iraq