Fiscal Deficit Quotes

#1. We are committed to achieving the fiscal deficit target announced in the budget.

Narendra Modi

#2. As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.

Jim Costa

#3. A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

Uday Kotak

#4. I have made mistakes - mighty big ones at that. Not the kind that would cause a national fiscal deficit a-la Manmohan Singh or ruin some unassuming person's life, but the kind that makes you go into face palm mode and want to die every time you are reminded of them.

Shuchi Singh Kalra

#5. In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

Li Keqiang

#6. A drastic reduction in the deficit ... will take place in the fiscal year '82.

Ronald Reagan

#7. 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

#8. The European Commission granted France an extra two years to meet its mandated budget deficit target of 3% of GDP. The deadline had already been extended by two years in 2013. It gave little explanation for the latest extension, which disappointed fiscal hawks.

Anonymous

#9. The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to reduce the deficit over time and as the economy is able to withstand the necessary fiscal belt-tightening. That is what President Obama is doing.

Christina Romer

#10. The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

John W. Snow

#11. The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.

Poh Ling Yeow

#12. I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.

Justin Trudeau

#13. I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Marsha Thomason

#14. On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Steven Weinberg

#15. Indeed, love is everything.

Sue Monk Kidd

#16. Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

Arkady Volozh