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Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force will get to work to determine the scope of the challenges facing Pennsylvania and begin to discuss how we can get Pennsylvania's fiscal house in order. -- Tom Wolf
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. -- Ed Parker
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues. -- John Caudwell
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. -- Jennifer Granholm
Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017. -- Francois Hollande
We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen. -- Rick Perry
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet. -- Hamilton Jordan
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask. -- Jonathan Sacks
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. -- Christina Romer
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey. -- Chris Christie
Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things. -- Stephanie Ruhle
We are committed to achieving the fiscal deficit target announced in the budget. -- Narendra Modi
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. -- Alice Rivlin
The [budget] deficit isn`t the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is. -- Cynthia Tucker
We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years. -- Rick Perry
I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations. -- Roscoe Bartlett
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
As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice. -- Bernie Sanders
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
Europe is right to tell us to reduce this [France's budget] deficit and spend less. Europe is right to demand this of us but cannot at the same time demand us to increase our dues. -- Nicolas Sarkozy

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