Best Deficit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Street to Street

“The electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) industries are creating an increasingly high radiation environment for the human. This is comparable to the elevated radiation environment found at high altitudes and smart health researchers would be wise to contrast high altitude diseases to the epidemics of our time, such as Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Fibromyalgia, Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), and so on.”

“Тільки вона могла зібрати ось так докупи фізичний і метафізичний дефіцит у державі: Бог, олія і червоний перець.”

God Metaphysics Deficit State

Book:Физика на тъгата

Source: Физика на тъгата

“In 1959, women were told they needed to cultivate their “daintiness”—today it's couched as “femininity,” but the unspoken message has stayed the same. The fact that the message is framed as empowerment doesn't change the deficit mentality behind it.”

Women Empowerment Mentality Femininity Deficit Unspoken Message Cultivate Daintiness

Book:Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs

Source: Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs

“I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.”

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Author:Warren Buffet

“Its not get it from the 1% that is the correct $$ Grubbing answer . . . to all budget solutions . . . its the 11% answer . . . . . If you took 111% from the Top 11% . . . you can ONLY pay for 11% of everything Democrat Politicians want to do . . . where do you think the rest is coming from . . . U . . . times 11”

States Political Politicians Deficit Spending Money Budgeting Budget Spending Money Unnecessarily

Author:Kevin Kolenda

“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence”)”

Time Friendship Silence Emotional Communication Words Absence Release Wellness Inflation Deficit Deficiency Spawn Gap Screaming Breathing Space Appalling Intolerable

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“What is raised by printing notes is just as much taken from the public as is a beer-duty or an income-tax. What the Government spends the public pays for. There is no such thing as an uncovered deficit.”

Deficit Political Economy Deficit Spending

Book:Tract on Monetary Reform

Source: Tract on Monetary Reform

“It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.”

Needs Helping Kids School Easy Parent Community Blame Library Agents Disorder Urban Deficit Planners School Library

Author:Richard Louv

“The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.”

Ifs Government Care Responsibility Records Seeing Strange Embrace Folks Spending Libertarian Celebrate Activist Deficit Hawks Anti Government

Author:Rachel Maddow

“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.”

Made War Nations Economic Security Concern Terrorism Oil Rising Thrown National Security Globalization Deficit War On Terror War On Terrorism

Author:Roger Mahony

“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.”

Years Has Beens Two Jobs Past Situation Millions Effects Taxes Rate Relief Two Years Soar Revenue Deficit Over The Past

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.”

People Running Faces Taxes Percent Institutions Debt Deficit Straight Face

Author:Richard Neal

“At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.”

Way Community Honor Republican Individualism Deficit

Author:Ron Fournier

“Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.”

Long Faces Social Term Security Long Term Social Security Deficit

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.”

Wells Acting Spending Revenue Deficit Imbalance

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.”

Thinking Needs Wells Remember Economic Activity Budgets Deficit Budget Deficit

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.”

Years Today Able Dies Strong Economy Records Five Proud Ten Budgets Five Years Balanced Deficit Propose Balanced Budget Strong Economy

Author:Rob Portman

“You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.”

People Needs Helping Care Suffering Deficit

Author:Christina Romer

“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.”

“Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.”

Honest Notion Painful Details Abstract Voters Deficit Enthusiastic Reduction

Author:Christina Romer

“If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.”

“The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.”

Littles Doe Cutting Surprise Deficit

Author:John Redwood

“The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.”

Ifs Needs Political Three Growth Party Cutting Easier Cost Agree Faster Related Unemployment Political Parties Revenue Deficit

Author:John Redwood

“For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.”

Country Enemy Economic Circumstances Critical Debt Our Country Unemployment Deficit Stagnation

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.”

Law Cutting Economic Policy Labor Investment Reform Taxation Deficit Economic Policy Restructure Labor Laws

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.”

Children Social Security Policy Our Children Decades Thanks Budgets Social Security Stolen Deficit Medicare Budget Deficit

Author:Steven Rattner

“Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.”

Years Levels Economy Streets Dangerous Wall Percent Financial Billions Productive Gambling Speculation Deficit Fees

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.”

Firsts Done Left Stuff Sides Cutting Huge Taxes Accidents Combination Bags Deficit Really Cool Tax Cuts Pentagon Deluded

Author:Thomas Frank

“When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.”

Looks Done Running Building Tables Strategy Property Killing Bridges Meat Remove Crew Deficit No Money Building Bridges

Author:Thomas Frank

“I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.”

People Care Fall Asks Cutting Victim Deficit Affordable Affordable Care Act

Author:Al Franken

“While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.”

Home College Office Stores Educated Voters Factories Deficit Romney Disadvantages Educated Women

Author:Mara Liasson

“The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.”

“Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.”

Opportunity Class Middle Taxes Benefits Bills Congress Favors Relief Middle Class Wealthy Deficit Deductions

Author:Rick Larsen

“I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.”

Attention Sitting Best Things Disorder Classroom Deficit Attention Deficit Disorder

Author:Jeremy Miller

“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.”

Wealth Money Gold Spending Schemes Inflation Deficit Property Rights Banking System Money And Power Monetary System Gold Standard Deficit Spending Buying Gold

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.”

Ifs Term Economy Growing Taxes Lows Burden Spending Checks Temporary Deficit Manageable Ifs And Tax Burden

Author:Jim Nussle

“Quantitatve easing is NOT going away. Every major country is running a deficit. If they are all net borrowers then who is the lender? The central banks. For this reason – QE is not going away for a long time.”

Ifs Long Country Reason Running Majors Long Time Going Away Deficit Central Banks Lenders Borrowers

Author:Jeffrey Gundlach

“The national deficit is not rising.”

Rising Deficit

Author:Ed Balls

“The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.”

Way Long Running Growth Long Runs Deficit

Author:Edward Lazear

“Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.”

House President White Plans Produce Responsible White House Deficit Reduction

Author:Jeff Landry

“I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.”

Government New York Taxes Size Billions Deficit Surplus Size Of Government

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.”

“I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.”

Should Believe Long I Believe Social Term Conditions Security Accounts Workers Long Term Social Security Deficit Reduction

Author:Cliff Stearns

“The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.”

States United United States Balance Accounts Trade Currents Usual Items Deficit Payment

Author:Robert C. Solomon

“Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.”

Country Today Movement Balance Sixty Reserves Deficit Payment Surplus

Author:Robert C. Solomon

“So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.”

Ifs Balance Currency Reserves Deficit Payment Euro

Author:Robert C. Solomon

“We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.”

Wells Important Growth Economy Rate Focused Deficit

Author:John W. Snow

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