Deficit Quotes
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?
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On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.
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By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.
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Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
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There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.
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When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
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Yes, we should consider ways to address the deficit and bring real, direct relief to the gulf region, ... but we must not lose sight of maintaining the infrastructure that supports our economy and way of life.
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There is a deficit; I'd like to see it lowered. But it's up to Congress to decide whether that should be done by higher taxes, lower spending or some combination.
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The Kerry plan is simple: Add more money to our national deficit, spend more money here in Washington, raise taxes on job creation.
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To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.
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Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.
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Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
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It turns out chimps have the same genetic sequence as that family with the speech deficit.
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The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
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When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.
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We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.
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Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
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Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.
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While Donald Trump said, well, our plan won't be exactly like the House Republican plan, the closer it is to that plan, the less likely it is to increase the deficit.
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Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.
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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.
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I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day...
