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I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions. -- Bob Inglis
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right. -- Joni Mitchell
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
Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend. -- Jean Chretien
The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. -- Ron White
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit? -- Joan Blades
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
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. -- Sarah Palin
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs. -- Gary Johnson
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. -- Simon Cowell
And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it. -- Barack Obama
D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction. -- David Vitter
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. -- Alan Greenspan
My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear. -- Steven Wright
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read. -- Andrew Young
There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention. -- Jay Leno
My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest. -- Kyle Dunnigan
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. -- Alan Greenspan
As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflactulance Disorder (not to mention) A Bit Thick. -- Eoin Colfer
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. -- Jim Ryun
Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think. -- Ted Nelson
Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing, running down reserves, etc.; thereby causing in most circumstances, and very acutely in ours, monetary inflation and severe pressure on the balance of payments. -- John James Cowperthwaite
Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. -- Bernie Sanders
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. -- Ronald Reagan
The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing. -- Vladimir Putin
For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement. -- Mikhail Saakashvili
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. -- Sam Ewing
It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy. -- David Cameron
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. -- Martin Feldstein
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit. -- Nigel Farage
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues. -- Jacob Lew
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
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
The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy. -- Paul Ryan
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. -- Noam Chomsky
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. -- Richard Lamm
I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body. -- Sloane Crosley
Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner. -- Jo Ann Emerson
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
Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them. -- David D. Burns
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. -- Barack Obama
What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. -- Nancy Pelosi
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk? -- Karl Rove
If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates. -- Marc Faber
Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years. -- Bernie Sanders
The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures. -- Don Kardong
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span. -- Thomas Haden Church
I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics. -- John Paul DeJoria
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
Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. -- Daniel Hannan
Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution. -- Peer Steinbruck
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. -- Allen West
What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water. -- Grover Norquist
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. -- Barack Obama
I am a deficit hawk. -- Dick Cheney
The national deficit is not rising. -- Ed Balls
Online we have a compassion deficit -- Monica Lewinsky
We have a deficit of wonder right now. -- Tom Waits
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You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction. -- Nancy Pelosi
The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die. -- Cheshire Cat
Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit. -- Ronald Reagan
Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes. -- Peter R. Orszag
Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem. -- Kent Conrad
I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending. -- Al Sharpton
Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle. -- Wanda Coleman
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It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder. -- Tim Ryan
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. -- Sonia Sotomayor
The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease. -- Jeb Hensarling
We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending. -- Ronald Reagan
India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
... a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115" -- Sonia Sotomayor
The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth. -- Tim Kaine
will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit. -- Jim Ramstad
Having a trade deficit and a budget deficit, it's two different things. -- Stephanie Ruhle
Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy. -- Scott Peters
The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. -- Martin Feldstein
We are committed to achieving the fiscal deficit target announced in the budget. -- Narendra Modi
The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy. -- Paul Krugman
There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit. -- Marcia Angell
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. -- Alice Rivlin
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor. -- Ozzy Osbourne
It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk. -- John McCain
...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations -- Jonathon Porritt
A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82. -- Ronald Reagan
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them. -- Jonas Salk
The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth. -- Edward Lazear
The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone. -- Paul Krugman
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause. -- Marilyn vos Savant
One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. -- Gary Bauer
Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint. -- Monica Crowley
The [budget] deficit isn`t the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is. -- Cynthia Tucker
I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school. -- Stephen Rodrick
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. -- Michael Hudson
When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it. -- Viola Davis
Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby. -- Paul Newman
I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things. -- James Vincent McMorrow
It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy. -- Jacob Lew
We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years. -- Rick Perry
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit. -- Stella Young
While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes. -- Jason Chaffetz
I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me. -- Jeremy Miller
Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas. -- Peter DeFazio
Only the insane equate pain with success." "The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die." _Cheshire Cat -- Lewis Carroll
The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama. -- Tim Pawlenty
In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength. -- Temple Grandin
By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong. -- Dennis Hastert
Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4% -- Narendra Modi
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily. -- Paloma Faith
The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high. -- Brad Sherman
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch. -- Rob Woodall
I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations. -- Roscoe Bartlett
In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit. -- Li Keqiang
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with. -- Milton Friedman
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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? -- Sasa Vucinic

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