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Federal Deficit Quotes By Barack Obama

The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit. — Barack Obama

Federal Deficit Quotes By Johann Kaspar Lavater

Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Federal Deficit Quotes By Tim Pawlenty

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama. — Tim Pawlenty

Federal Deficit Quotes By Jeffrey D. Sachs

the United States will need substantially more revenues to close the budget deficit, especially recognizing the need to increase federal spending in certain critical areas. I — Jeffrey D. Sachs

Federal Deficit Quotes By G. Edward Griffin

During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere. — G. Edward Griffin

Federal Deficit Quotes By Dick Morris

Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax increase plans, a big reduction in federal spending, repeal of Obamacare, freeing manufacturing from the prospect of carbon taxation and unleashing out domestic energy potential can solve our problems. But Obama is not about to undo his legacy of disaster for the American people. — Dick Morris

Federal Deficit Quotes By Debra Anastasia

For days after her horrendous meeting with Mr. Johnson Loudy McSexypus Fitzwell, Dove would stop to just blush from head to toe. — Debra Anastasia

Federal Deficit Quotes By Thomas Jefferson

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society. — Thomas Jefferson

Federal Deficit Quotes By Jacob Lew

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy. — Jacob Lew

Federal Deficit Quotes By Alice Rivlin

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. — Alice Rivlin

Federal Deficit Quotes By Marcia Angell

Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit. — Marcia Angell

Federal Deficit Quotes By Dick Morris

Ronald Reagan cut taxes to raise the deficit to stop liberals in future years from increasing spending. Obama will raise spending to raise the deficit to stop conservatives in future years from cutting taxes. As he funds every liberal dream - from alternative energy production to infrastructure renovation to more federal revenue sharing - he will force a massive expansion in the size of government for a decade to come. — Dick Morris

Federal Deficit Quotes By Tom Brokaw

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul. — Tom Brokaw

Federal Deficit Quotes By Christopher Moore

You're going to need more than that to usher in the kingdom of God, Josh, no offense. We can't go home with, 'Hi, I'm the Messiah, God wanted you to have this bacon. — Christopher Moore

Federal Deficit Quotes By Judd Gregg

This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control], we're Greece. We're a banana republic. Our status as a nation is threatened by what we've got coming at us in the area of deficit and debt. And it's only a few more years, at the most, that we have to work with here before the market says, 'Sorry, your currency is something we can not continue to defend.' — Judd Gregg

Federal Deficit Quotes By Pat Buchanan

American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within. — Pat Buchanan

Federal Deficit Quotes By Aaron B. Powell

What if the Federal deficit is a lie? — Aaron B. Powell

Federal Deficit Quotes By Mike Johanns

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. — Mike Johanns

Federal Deficit Quotes By Brad Sherman

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

Federal Deficit Quotes By Elia Suleiman

The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics. — Elia Suleiman

Federal Deficit Quotes By Robert Reich

The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal.
Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both. — Robert Reich

Federal Deficit Quotes By Dave Barry

One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches. — Dave Barry

Federal Deficit Quotes By George Noory

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today. — George Noory

Federal Deficit Quotes By Barry Loudermilk

Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few. — Barry Loudermilk

Federal Deficit Quotes By Susanne Katherina Langer

The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal". — Susanne Katherina Langer

Federal Deficit Quotes By Jill Johnston

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence. — Jill Johnston

Federal Deficit Quotes By Ron Paul

The greatest threat facing America today
is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government,
marked by shameless deficit spending and
Federal Reserve currency devaluation.
It is this one-two punch -
Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow,
and the Fed printing money to make up the difference -
that threatens to impoverish us by further
destroying the value of our dollars. — Ron Paul

Federal Deficit Quotes By Melissa Bean

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all. — Melissa Bean

Federal Deficit Quotes By David Baldacci

There's a phrase that critics of economic forecasting like to use: Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it. This entire city is filled with number crunchers who look at the exact same data and interpret it in widely disparate ways on everything from the federal budget deficit to the Social Security surplus." "Meaning that data can be manipulated." "Of course it can, depending on who's paying the meter and whose political agenda is being furthered, — David Baldacci

Federal Deficit Quotes By John C. Danforth

As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around. — John C. Danforth

Federal Deficit Quotes By George W. Bush

Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule. — George W. Bush

Federal Deficit Quotes By Warren Buffett

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. — Warren Buffett

Federal Deficit Quotes By Marian Wright Edelman

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight ... — Marian Wright Edelman