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Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.
Tax reform shouldn't add one penny to our deficit or to the tax bills of middle-class Americans.
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.
This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.
Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.
Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%
We cannot solve the deficit crisis on the back of our seniors. We need all Americans to pay their fair share.
You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.
If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?
The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.
The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.
In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.
India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.
I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.
According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.
I'm a person who cannot be doing nothing. I have a deficit. In Mexico, we say 'hiperactivo' - hyperactive. I am hyperactive!
I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.
It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.
I've added up all the hours of zzz's I've missed in my lifetime, and it turns out I'm running on a rather substantial deficit.
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.
Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.
The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
To create employment, we need to stimulate the economy, and to stimulate the economy, we need to cut spending and reduce the deficit.
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
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.