The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

- Arthur Laffer

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

- Austan Goolsbee

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

- Bernie Sanders

I am a deficit hawk.

- Dick Cheney

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

- Jacob Lew

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

- Jim Lehrer

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

- Jeb Hensarling

I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.

- P. J. O'Rourke

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

- Ronald Reagan

When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'

- Timothy Noah

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

- Tim Ryan

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

- Vladimir Putin

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

- Wilbur Mills