Deficit Quotes

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I love intelligent films that come at you fast. I don`t have attention deficit disorder, my mind moves fast. There`s a lot to deal with in my films. We had so many facts to go through, so the governing style was flash, cut, flash, repeat.

- Oliver Stone

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It`s a bad time to he right.

- Joni Mitchell

Perhaps we should look at somewhere else where they recently used the time-old bribe of tax cuts, and see how it worked. In 2000, George W. Bush, under the reasonable sounding `compassionate conservatism`, offered huge tax cuts. And he delivered. Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer, but the economy is in the tank, a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit, and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics. Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?.

- Sam Neill

I`m also beginning to engage myself more in the public discussion of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to which I was diagnosed five years ago.

- Christopher Knight

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

- Gordon Brown

If the food deficit continues, it is going to change the configuration of the deep-sea communities of organisms. No organism can survive long periods of time without food. There`s going to have to be some adjustments. In the long term, either the animal will have to adapt to the shortage or a more opportunistic species will take over.

- Kenneth Smith

The Burke Administration continues to dodge going public with news of the City`s newest arrival - a $4.8 million dollar `structural deficit` - while, at the same time, using that bad news to its advantage in wage negotiations with police and fire unions.

- Kevin Burke

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it`s only a hundred billion. It`s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.

- Richard Feynman

(Children often) rise to some challenge ... They`re doing 110% and there is no such thing as 110%. They`re at a deficit and it will burn them out.

- Michael Bradley

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush`s budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with `Hey, look over there, it`s Saddam Hussein.`

- Craig Kilborn

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

- Ron Paul

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.

- Jeff Miller

We really played exceptionally against a very good team. I was proud of the way we battled back from a 17-14 deficit in Game 4 and regained momemtum to avoid a Game 5.

- Paul Elliott

It was a wild one today. The wind was howling and we had a few questionable calls from the judges go against us. I feel good heading into tomorrow. An 11-point deficit isn`t too hard to overcome.

- Andy Johnson

The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.

- Brad Sherman

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

- Ken Mehlman

Government spending in the year to September increased by a thousand percent. When you spend a thousand percent, you will likely get the same amount in inflation. The real economy in this country shrunk even by the government`s own admission by 45 percent in the last five years. That means, government should have shrunk by 45 percent. Government has not shrunk by 45 percent. The formal economy is producing much less tax revenue, in order for it to pay its civil servants. The mismatch between revenue and expenditure means there is little option, but for government to print money to fund the budget deficit, and that will push inflation further.

- John Richards

It`s very possible we`re at the beginning of a current account deficit that is going to widen substantially.

- David Bloom

It certainly did help to see some narrowing of the trade deficit -- but the real positive for sterling will be a `steady as she goes` message from the Fed and then the next step will be to see what the inflation report tomorrow has to offer.

- David Mann

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.

- Alan Lloyd

If there`s a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.

- Alex Cruz

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.

- Alfred Hamilton Barr

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

- Alice Besterman

As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today.

- Alice Besterman

While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

- Alice Golembo

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

- Allan Denham

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

- Amanda Bird

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

- Amanda Bird

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

- Amanda Bird

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

- Amanda Bird

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

- Amanda Bird

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

- Amanda Bird

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

- Amanda Clark

I don`t want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

- Amanda Clark

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

- Amaya Smith

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

- Amber Cunningham

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

- Amy Ernest

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.

- Ana Verley

Because the budget deficit is creating a situation in which the United States is not saving enough to finance its own... its own investment.

- Andre Cook

If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we`ll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner. -Beth Moore

- Andrew William Mellon

What I`ve tried to do . . . is create a whole model that got away from test scores and avoided labels like LD (learning disabled) or ADD (attention-deficit disorder), and use a profile of strengths and weaknesses.

- Anita Ramirez

I find it absolutely astounding, given the fact that over the last six years our airport has run at a deficit between $11 million and $13 million, that we have not raised landing fees for 20 years.

- Annalies Corbin

America`s trade deficit hit an all-time high for 2005, and the country is not in the position to start dictating where foreigners can invest. The only way the United States is able to sustain such a deficit is by getting money from abroad, by attracting investment dollars.

- Anthony Brandt

We think there is a potential deficit of electricity in the Northeast.

- Anthony Shadid

We were kind of enamored with the situation. Our eyes were wide open and I was hoping it would only last four or five minutes. But our eyes grew wider and the hole got deeper. With a deficit that big there was very little room for error.

- April Horace

Six months ago, the McGuinty government said the deficit was $6 billion, then in the budget they said it was $3 billion, and now four months later, they say it`s only $1.6 billion,

- Arieh Sharon

We`re very unhappy about the impact this is going to have on Delaware. The student loan cuts, the cuts in Medicaid. These are all programs that serve low-income Delawareans. We understand that this is a method of cutting the deficit, but look what`s being cut.

- Arizona Republican

It took a lot of energy to come back from such a large deficit. I think we just ran out of gas.

- Armando Nava Jr

Even an 8% current account deficit failed to dent it significantly, which is surprising.

- Art Jackson

In the course of three days we`ve gone from a deficit (of rainfall) to over two-and-a-half inches positive.

- Barbara W. Tuchman