Deficit Quotations | Page 2

I don't think you would have seen a gathering like this six years ago, before 9/11, or even two or four years ago. This is a 35-year deficit Democrats have had on national security where it's been an issue to be survived, not highlighted.

I encourage you not to approve deficit spending.

For us, everything is too much of a deficit when we get down five or six runs because we're only averaging two or three runs a game. That might be a bit of a confidence thing with our guys.

If we were to move back into a deficit situation at the government level, that would quite radically change the outlook for the Canadian dollar, but we don't think that's likely to happen.

If the food deficit continues, it is going to change the configuration of the deep-sea communities of organisms. No organism can survive long periods of time without food. There's going to have to be some adjustments. In the long term, either the animal will have to adapt to the shortage or a more opportunistic species will take over.

He did a nice job fighting off his back but that's a big deficit to come back from.

He'll be talking about solving the budget deficit not only this year, but into the future.

We can expect to see worse numbers to come. The simple reason is when there is a rise in oil prices that increase in oil price for a particular month does not tend to spill over into the trade deficit until the next month.

We've got to start worrying about America. And if we don't start dealing with the debt we have and the deficit spending we have in Washington, politics doesn't matter, because the American people do realize that they have to balance their budgets.

What we've seen over the last couple of weeks with disruptions at copper mines has narrowed the opinion of whether the market is going to be in deficit or surplus. More and more people are thinking it's going to be in deficit this year.

Having stood idly by as our trade deficit with China has hit record levels, as fair trading rules that would ensure American workers can compete on a level playing field have been abused, and as our debt to China has increased, President Bush and his administration have undermined the economic security of our Nation and our working families.

Gold is a safe haven and there's expectation that with the bloated trade deficit in the U.S., the U.S. dollar is vulnerable.

There is always this worry that such a spending plan will widen the budget deficit. If India misses the deficit target again, it could dilute its commitment to fiscal consolidation. Giving dole doesn't resolve poverty.

Hurricane insurance payouts will not recur, we expect the deficit to narrow sharply again in Q4 2005. The negative impact on sterling from today's release should be short-lived.

He carried us and we just got done telling him that in the locker room. We were not playing very good and a lot of that was because of Bath's defense, but Brandon kept us in it. Without him it would have been a bigger deficit that we would have had to overcome had he not been playing.

Joplin has been the bull's eye for the drought in Missouri, where 11 of the past 12 months have received below normal rainfall. The precipitation deficit is now approaching 20 inches, or less than 60 percent of normal.

It certainly did help to see some narrowing of the trade deficit -- but the real positive for sterling will be a 'steady as she goes' message from the Fed and then the next step will be to see what the inflation report tomorrow has to offer.

It also faces interesting tests from U.S. inflation data this week from which we expect strong readings. But the focus is on the adverse U.S. funding situation and it is becoming increasingly hard for the dollar to maintain its value as the current account deficit expands.

I think the main message is, it's certainly good news that instead of a $70-million-plus projected deficit (in 2005), the city now has a small surplus. We're not done yet. We have to keep going.

I think the Budget is going to be positive. The last government numbers up until December point to a small deficit and, pushing it out to the full year, the deficit should be less than one percent of GDP. There is scope for government to spend more and provide more tax relief at the low end of the scale.

I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as an adult, but I don't remember a time when I didn't have them. Back in the 1960s, when I was growing up, my symptoms didn't have a name, and you didn't go to the doctor to find out.

I thought we had a solid third quarter. We cut the deficit and swung the momentum in our favor. But then we started the fourth slowly. We turned the ball over and they got a couple of buckets and were able to forge ahead by seven or eight. We chased them the entire quarter and just couldn't catch up.

I think we have a national attention deficit disorder, ... Because we're so itchy. We're changing the channel, the camera is constantly moving, the edits are flying thick and fast.

I think what we can take away from this is our ability to overcome that deficit and tie the game.

I think a lot of gloom still exists about the size of the deficit and the market is punishing the dollar for that.

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.

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

It is a reminder that the Government has been running a sizeable off-budget deficit via PFI deals and deficits in businesses that are really government-run but structured in a way that aims to technically keep them out of the public sector deficit.

I think the question on most people's minds is what are they going to do to be able to maintain the surplus and not overspend so that we move back into a deficit situation.

Kyle coming out and hitting those two 3s was really big. I think they got down and I think that made their other guys a little bit cautious about taking some shots and maybe did some things that they normally don't do. They haven't had to play with a deficit a whole lot this year.

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.

People are cautious about buying the dollar at the moment. The U.S. needs a lot of investment to fund the deficit and the bigger it gets the harder that task becomes.

Our imports increase as long as the economy grows. But there's certainly a concern that our exports are down despite the fact that Asian and European economies have begun to rebound. Maintaining the high deficit is dangerous because that means a huge debt, and if our creditors lose confidence in the U.S. economy and begin selling dollars, which drives down the value of the currency, that could spark a serious inflation threat.

Our projected deficit for the June 30, 2007, school year is $2.3-million.

Our suggestion to Asian countries is: Don't take this continuous financing of the U.S. current account deficit as a given.

Rising business investment may have boosted demand for imported goods and stalled a further improvement in the trade deficit in January. We still are upbeat on exports, with commodity prices rising and strong global demand.

Platinum should continue to find support ahead of $940/oz with the metals supply deficit and strong industrial demand continuing to provide strong support while palladium is currently finding support at $240/oz with strong chart support pegged at $220/oz.

Reducing the budget deficit more quickly would certainly be a positive factor in the rating sense,

Regardless of what the president may say on Tuesday night, the Republican budget is an alarming story. It includes policies that increase the deficit by nearly $300 billion, heaping mountains of debt on our children.

President Bush's pledge to halve the budget deficit by 2009 distracts policymakers from the real issue of unsustainable trends in long-term entitlement spending. The president's proposal to slow Medicare's 9% annual growth rate is a good fiscal step, but the budget does not propose enough immediate and bold reforms to the quickly growing entitlement programs that threaten to overwhelm the budget.

Spending is rising and the deficit is rising, the question is will they have to raise taxes further?

Some of the reasons why people bought gold don't hold true anymore. Rising energy costs, inflation, the double deficit in the U.S. and geopolitical tension. None of them seem to be much of a problem.

That early deficit put us behind the 8-ball for sure. But I told the girls to keep their heads up, and we battled back.

Let me just preface this agenda item by saying that I recognize very clearly ? and it is no secret ? that Stoneham has a large deficit that it needs to deal with.

I think sleep deprivation, sleep fragmentation, certainly causes attention deficit issues,

It does indicate that the second quarter was a disappointing quarter, ... Growth slowed sharply. Consumers became more cautious and our trade deficit ballooned. The economy was weighed down by higher energy prices.

I think I must have attention deficit disorder,

I thought it was going to be a long night. Stevens got off to a hot start, and we found ourselves down by a large deficit early. Our guys deserve a lot of credit for the perseverance and the character they showed by prevailing the way they did. It would have been a lot easier for us to just fold.

It is certainly something to worry about. Continuing to attract funds when the current account deficit is that large and continuing to rise is bound to become a serious problem.

We now we're not going to get that. But we authorized the departments to spend on that level. That in itself creates a deficit spending.

That was a pretty big deficit to try to dig a hole out of. They went inside on us to start the game. We tried fronting the post, but that didn't work, so we ended up playing behind them, and we got into some foul trouble after that.

That's the real bear case -- rates rise in the United States, exasperating home and car sales. For the government to bail the economy out, there would be more massive deficit spending.

I was proud of our kids for how we battled in the second half. We were down by such a deficit and it was a carnival-type of atmosphere in the first half. We played with a lot of heart and desire. There was no quit in the batch that was on the floor.

While the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will be felt in the short term, we remain on a path to meet the president's goal of cutting the deficit in half by 2009,

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

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.

We haven't seen much improvement in export volumes and that suggests net exports will detract from economic growth yet again. The current account deficit also will stay wide, reflecting increased profits for foreign investors and higher debt-servicing costs for Australian companies.

Wherever the capital inflows come from, it is clear that Iceland would not have been able to run so large a current account deficit without them and would have had to curb internal demand a while ago. The same is true, of course, of the U.S. (and of the U.K. for that matter). The key question in these instances is how reliable the capital inflows are.

While deficit countries still enjoy yield advantage, the rate premium is narrowing.

We really played exceptionally against a very good team. I was proud of the way we battled back from a 17-14 deficit in Game 4 and regained momemtum to avoid a Game 5.

We played three consecutive games where we dug ourselves a nine-point deficit we couldn't get out of.

We had an extremely bad current account deficit number this morning. Trade is going to be a very big focus this week. The huge number that we had for the fourth-quarter deficit brings it even more to the forefront because now we got clear structural deficiencies.

We had an extremely bad current account deficit number this morning.

Were up to our necks in deficit spending. Were piling up billions more in debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay,

We're up now. I think we just realize what needs to be done. Not having Chris out there is a deficit for us, but we just have to make up for his offense. Steven brought that tonight with his effort and I just tried to do my thing. With two athletic guys, we're going to make the game difficult.

With the US trade deficit expanding and the American auto sector in pretty bad shape, I don't think Japan would want to run the risk of upsetting Washington these days.

With the U.S. slowdown looking more real each day, the trade deficit may have passed its peak. The slowdown hadn't hit full force yet in October. U.S. consumers are still sucking in massive amounts of imports. The slowdown will be more clearly seen in November and December's figures. If imported goods start to pile up on retailers' shelves this holiday season, imports could drop off fast.

We were going to have to close a school. We were going to have to eliminate sports. There were no choices when you're looking at almost 1$ million deficit in the first year.

To make matters worse, we are beginning the new year with a moisture deficit in the high country.

Today's record high trade deficit number only serves to play up the market's concern about the large imbalance in the U.S. trade account,

We can afford an increase in the deficit for a year or so,

We are in a deficit with seats in our public school system. The bond coming in November of this year is actually a year ahead of schedule.

We were kind of enamored with the situation. Our eyes were wide open and I was hoping it would only last four or five minutes. But our eyes grew wider and the hole got deeper. With a deficit that big there was very little room for error.

We didn't come out to play very well in the beginning and we turned it up in the second half but you know, the deficit was just too big for us to take the game.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

The overall trade performance was dragged down by a fifth successive deficit in oil trade and a reduced surplus in services.

We predict, there will be a large deficit of corn in the world, and we have the opportunity to cover the deficit as we have a large area for corn planting.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

We still have the underlying deficit issue, which the market is still focusing on. We're going up through $1.22 over the next couple weeks.

We still haven't recovered from the hurricanes. The deficit just keeps on widening.

We still face a longer-range deficit problem and that will be exacerbated by increases in Medicare and Social Security payments, ... It would be helpful to bring our budget deficit down longer-term. I worry more about that than this temporary increase in the deficit.

Those folks who think you grow jobs by raising taxes, or you cut the deficit by raising taxes, are simply wrong, ... That's not the way you do it.

Those are big shoes to fill, losing J. Rose. It showed in the deficit in this game. He brings a lot to this team, and I feel like if we had him amongst us, we could have had a different outcome.

We are just hoping the export sector kicks into growth during 2006. Improvement in the trade deficit has been a long-time coming.

We recognize that the deficit matters, that we need to keep on a path to cut the deficit in half.

The ratio of fiscal deficit to GDP will continue to drop this year.

The question is whether you're going to get a clean read of the deficit out there anyway. They're going to create an artificial picture.

The question is not whether the U.S. current account deficit will fall in the future but whether the inevitable adjustment is likely to be painful and disruptive of U.S. economic growth and stability -- a hard landing.

The prospective increase in the budget deficit will place at risk future living standards of our country. As a result, I think it would be very desirable to take concrete steps to lower the prospective path of the deficit.

Trade data is a little better ... but I think the dollar rally should be limited as the prospects for the trade deficit still aren't very good.

We want to consider our partners and the needs of the world economy, ... We do not decide our currency rate based on the trade deficit of any single country.

The deficit will widen further unless we adjust the price.

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

The Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005 may be something, but it is not law within the meaning of the Constitution.

The Deficit Reduction Act is a modest step to control spending. There is nothing compassionate about ignoring reality and leaving a crushing debt burden to future generations.

The Deficit Reduction Act had a lot of cuts, and it had a couple of good things. These are the good things. One step forward, four steps back -- that's the way I characterize the legislation.

The deficit is like an unhealthy habit. You can keep doing things you know aren't good for you. You know that somewhere down the road you're going to pay a price. But you keep doing those bad things, anyway.

The deficit is going up exponentially ... This is a clear editorial on the fiscal policies of this administration, ... I have said before that it was a disaster. I think the numbers today demonstrate why I believe that.

The deficit is getting worse, but that's not a surprise.

The deficit is a little smaller because of this voluntary tax.