Quotes On Deficit Thinking

#1. We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.

Tony Blankley

#2. 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

#3. When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.

George Carlin

#4. This is the way I think I should always paint you- with a size twenty-four round brush in my hand as you coat the bristles

Ella Frank

#5. Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.

Russ Feingold

#6. The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#7. In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point ... Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

Warren Buffett

#8. I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.

Rahm Emanuel

#9. Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

Ted Nelson

#10. Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. What is more important to you your religion or your love for your fellow man?

Gaiven Clairmont

#12. I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.

Burton Cummings

#13. I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or something your parents did.

W. Kamau Bell

#14. The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.

Jim Wallis

#15. So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

Terence McKenna

#16. I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

Matthew McConaughey