Top 21 Reagan Deficit Quotes
#1. Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet.
Ronald Reagan
#2. A drastic reduction in the deficit ... will take place in the fiscal year '82.
Ronald Reagan
#3. 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
#4. I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.
Ronald Reagan
#5. When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'
Timothy Noah
#6. It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
Francis Ford Coppola
#7. The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to propose one.
Dick Gephardt
#8. Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.
Ronald Reagan
#9. We didn't know what made "great TV." We were just trying to make a living and trying hard to honor the craft we had both fallen in love with over the years.
Joanna Gaines
#10. I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
Ronald Reagan
#11. Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
Henry Miller
#12. We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.
Ronald Reagan
#14. Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#16. Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.
Ronald Reagan
#17. The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
Daniel Keys Moran
#18. I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.
Cliff Curtis
#19. I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
Christopher Buckley
#20. To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
Irene Peter
#21. We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
Jack Kornfield
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