#deficit

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today. ↗

— Jim Costa

#clear #deficit #fact #financial #find

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth. ↗

— Edward Lazear

#eliminate #growth #long #long run #only

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#cuts #deficit #order #reduce #revenue

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#activist #care #celebrating #deficit #embrace

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#changes #concern #deficit #economic #even

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#attention deficit #bad #bad time #deficit #everyone

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

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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. ↗

— Patty Murray

#am #country #critical #deal #debt

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

#bigger #cleaner #deficits #environment #forcing

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#anything #deficits #done #exacerbate #going