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I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: About Clear Deficit Dinner Dinner Table Inevitable Less Like Moaning Reckoning Seconds Table Than I Can

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I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Administration Deficit Early House Off Reagan Really Rocket Started Take Time White White House Worked

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When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure.

~Chuck Schumer

Topics: Age Bring Deficit Deficit Reduction Democrats Down First First Thing Free Like Medicare Provide Rates Reduce Reduction Republicans Say Saying Sure The First Thing Thing Would You

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I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: American Anyone Cut Deficit Deficit Reduction Face How Insist Keep Know Permanent Reduction Say Straight Tax Tax Cut Unpaid While

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I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

~Cliff Stearns

Topics: Account Allow Believe Condition Contribute Coupled Deficit Deficit Reduction Enhance Long Long-Term Measures Own Personal Reduction Security Should Social Social Security Toward Workers Younger I Believe I Believe That

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Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources - it is a deficit in human will.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: Deficit Feed Human Human Resources Many Our Poverty Resources Science Science And Technology Should Something Technology Why Will Wrong

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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.

~Cory Booker

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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

Topics: Budget Bush Creates Deficit Democrats Dollar Hey House Hussein Look Out Over Point President Quick Quickly Saddam Saddam Hussein Trillion Were White White House

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I would like to believe that TPP will lead to more exports and jobs for the American people. But history shows that big trade agreements - from NAFTA to the Korea Free Trade Agreement - have resulted in fewer American jobs, lower wages, and a bigger trade deficit.

~Dan Lipinski

Topics: Agreement Agreements American American People Believe Big Bigger Deficit Exports Fewer Free Free Trade History Jobs Korea Lead Like Lower More Nafta People Resulted Shows Trade Wages Will Would

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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

~Dan Webster

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