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  • Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.

    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.234, Penguin
  • Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

    "Ron Paul and Rand Paul discuss Politics and Healthcare on CNN". "CNN American Morning" with Kiran Chetry, www.ronpaul.com. August 6, 2009.
  • 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.

    Party   Government   Tea  
  • If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences.

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

  • Online we have a compassion deficit

  • When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

    Country   Years   Serious  
    "West clarifies controversial 'get the hell out' message to Democrats". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2012.
  • That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

    "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.
  • It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

    "Recruiting McCain to the Democratic Ticket". www.newsbusters.org.
  • 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 P. Feynman, Teacher". David L. Goodstein, "Physics Today", Volume 42, No. 2, February 1989.
  • I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?

    "Rogen, Diaz, Chou, Waltz, Gondry and Moritz Talk About Making 'the Green Hornet'". Interview with the filmmakers, www.hollywoodnews.com. January 13, 2011.
  • I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

  • We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen into debt in such a pervasive way that social security is compromised, we are living longer than we lived before and in order to secure the kind of healthcare that we need without the deficits on our budget, we need really strong leadership that is focused only on the plethora of issues and not just the traditional concerns that have driven us to the ballot box.

    Strong   Order   America  
    Source: thechurchladyblogs.com
  • But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?

    "John Maynard Keynes: Where’s The Genius?!". Interview with Benn Steil, www.ilanamercer.com. August 16, 2013.
  • I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.

    Thinking   People   House  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

  • From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

  • Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

    Recovery   Cutting   Risk  
    "The Tories got it totally wrong on the recession: now they're getting it wrong on the recovery" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.
  • We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense.

    People   Phrases   Use  
    Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas
  • We've been the foolish country for so long with this free trade, but it's not free trade because it's - you know, just doesn't work. I mean, it's not working. You look at the deficits we have.

    Country   Mean   Long  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.

    Dollars   Rising   Debt  
    "Divine Debt Trumps All" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 20, 2009.
  • Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit down and take immediate action now to support the economy and create jobs here in Britain.

  • Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity.

    Real   Party   Cutting  
    "President to Meet with Senate Leaders; Minot Evacuees Can't Go Back Home Yet; Indonesian Workers Banned From Saudi Jobs; TSA Forces 95-Year-Old to Remove Adult Diaper; Bachmann to Declare Bid Monday". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2011.
  • 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  
  • 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.

    World   Way   Financial  
  • 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.

    Details   Voters   Honest  
  • I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

  • I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.

  • The U. S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.

    Reality   Use   Should  
  • If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.

    Cutting   Years   Giving  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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