Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spending is rising and the deficit is rising, the question is will they have to raise taxes further?

Our projected deficit for the June 30, 2007, school year is $2.3-million.

Republicans are spending at a rate not seen since Lyndon Johnson's presidency, ... They're legislating as if deficits don't matter.

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

George Davis

I think the question on most people's minds is what are they going to do to be able to maintain the surplus and not overspend so that we move back into a deficit situation.

I don't know what the largest deficit was, but I think that everyone got to really enjoy what I've had an opportunity to enjoy all year, and that's just how tough our women really are, how strong they are, strong in character. They showed a lot of fight and I'm very proud of them.

Joe Barton

Basically, it takes the money and spends it all. It doesn't leave anything for deficit reduction.

Matt Bennett

I don't think you would have seen a gathering like this six years ago, before 9/11, or even two or four years ago. This is a 35-year deficit Democrats have had on national security where it's been an issue to be survived, not highlighted.

If this is sustained we can be more hopeful the trade deficit will not rise further,

If we can't make up a half-game deficit over the last 10 games, it wasn't meant to be anyway.

He did a nice job fighting off his back but that's a big deficit to come back from.

We can expect to see worse numbers to come. The simple reason is when there is a rise in oil prices that increase in oil price for a particular month does not tend to spill over into the trade deficit until the next month.

We have a significant deficit in rainfall, The fire threat remains quite high.

Alan Greenspan

Lowering the deficit further in the near term, however, will be difficult in light of the need to pay for post-hurricane reconstruction and relief,

The overall trade performance was dragged down by a fifth successive deficit in oil trade and a reduced surplus in services.

The path of large and permanent deficits on which the government has embarked is unsound public policy and should be reversed as soon as the economy permits.

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

The outlook remains poor, ... Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Brad Sherman

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

Franco Modigliani

The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay later. You feel good, and then you get a hangover. The deficit makes you feel good - until you pay later.

The deficits that result from this are really an investment in our future, ... They are appropriate for the time we find ourselves in, as we wage a war on terrorism and increase homeland security and put people back to work.

John W. Snow

The deficits are modest, manageable, and will recede to zero,

The deficit is getting worse, but that's not a surprise.

The deficit is a little smaller because of this voluntary tax.

I think a lot of gloom still exists about the size of the deficit and the market is punishing the dollar for that.

We still haven't recovered from the hurricanes. The deficit just keeps on widening.

We are just hoping the export sector kicks into growth during 2006. Improvement in the trade deficit has been a long-time coming.

We should see a big increase in oil imports and, given the overall robust demand in the U.S., we are also going to see higher non-oil imports. Over the next few quarters, the deficit is going to get bigger.

Ari Fleischer

The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of a sense that Washington is in need of dire fiscal reform.

Grover Norquist

What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.

Debbie Stabenow

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.

We're looking at a $450,000 to $550,000 deficit right now.