Quotes About The National Deficit

#1. 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

#2. The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk ... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.

Paul Haggis

#3. Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

Warren Bennis

#4. Maybe in death you'll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.

Charles Lee

#5. Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.
Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none

William Shakespeare

#6. The trials test the strength of faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#8. Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

Karl Rove

#9. With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

Jo Ann Emerson

#10. The sequestration is a bad idea, all around. It is something that is out of the question. If you have spending cuts, education of our children, other investments, on the National Institutes of Health, where you are hindering growth, you're no going to reduce the deficit.

Nancy Pelosi

#11. The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

Joseph Stiglitz

#12. When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.

Barack Obama

#13. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

Wes Anderson

#14. The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Alexander Pope

#15. If I did I didn't know it. What's it like, velvet?'

'Well, Lu, velvet is like the world was just born. Clean and new and so smooth.

Toni Morrison

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR HOGSWATCH, SMALL HUMAN?

Terry Pratchett

#19. The national deficit is not rising.

Ed Balls

#20. In fact, we are designed anatomically to be vegetarians.

Sharon Gannon

#21. I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

Tom Udall

#22. We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

John Spratt