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Reagan proved deficits don't matter.
More travel to America would lower our trade and budget deficits.
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term.
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.
Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
The biggest reason we know Justin Trudeau will raise taxes is because his never-ending deficits will force him to.
A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.
The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.
Bilateral trade deficits are not evil; historically, better growth in the U.S. economy has led to larger trade deficits.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.
Deficits are anathema to most Republicans. And Democrats widely believe that government spending should fall as the economy recovers.
Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.
Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.
America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits.
I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic and financial stability. We need to talk about that.
There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.
Growth is what solves most of the big economic and social problems: poverty, government deficits, quality of life, rising healthcare and retirement costs.
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.
We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus.
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
Under Reagan's policies, inflation and nominal GNP growth shriveled much faster than predicted, throwing off government revenue estimates and resulting in budget deficits.
Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.
Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.
In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations.