Quotes About Federal Deficit

#1. We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

Warren Buffett

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

Brad Sherman

#3. Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

George Noory

#4. The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

Barack Obama

#5. What if the Federal deficit is a lie?

Aaron B. Powell

#6. As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.

John C. Danforth

#7. It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

Jacob Lew

#8. The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

Tim Pawlenty

#9. The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

Mike Johanns

#10. For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all.

Melissa Bean

#11. Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.

Marcia Angell

#12. For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Norman Maclean

#13. the United States will need substantially more revenues to close the budget deficit, especially recognizing the need to increase federal spending in certain critical areas. I

Jeffrey D. Sachs

#14. American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.

Pat Buchanan

#15. The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ...

Marian Wright Edelman

#16. If you are a writer for a specific nation or a specific race, then fuck you.

Dambudzo Marechera

#17. What you have to do is find something or someone that will make your surviving worthwhile. Find a cause that moves you. Find a woman who need you. Just fucking find something you can do to make the world a better place for at least one other person.

Kallypso Masters

#18. Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for the true collector, merge in each one of his possessions into a magical encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.

Walter Benjamin

#19. I don't stress about things I can't change, so if I have a day when I don't look great, I don't look in the mirror! I try to fit in one session of Bikram yoga and one run a week and, if I can, one swim, but that's pushing it.

Donna Air

#20. The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#21. How much snow are they calling for?" "Somewhere between a lot and holy fuck.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal.
Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both.

Robert Reich

#23. The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

Alice Rivlin

#24. The opposite of creativity is compliance to external imposition, having for one reason or another to bend to the will of another.

Keith Oatley

#25. The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

John Hume