Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

Stay on the path that the Democratic Party has us on, we're going to be in a mountain range of debt.

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

We need to balance the budget and force Washington to stop spending more than it takes in.

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

The problem with our deficit is not because Americans are taxed too little. The problem with the deficit is because Washington spends too much money. We have got to stop spending money we don't have.

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.

This country right now owes $19 trillion. And they need somebody like me to straighten out that mess.

I have proposed I would not add a penny to the debt and [Donald Trump] plans would add $5 trillion to the debt.

When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for much of the time that President George W. Bush was in office, and they didn't do a great job of controlling spending.

As we all know, the budget decisions which give rise to increased debt are what counts, and the debt is just a by-product of those budget decisions.

May the debt of the United States be discharged with speed and punctuality; and let not the people be deceived, by having the funds, established for that purpose, put to other uses.

The deficit had become a symbol of our inability to control and manage the cost of government.

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

I do not add a penny to the national debt.

The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.

We are not going to let Donald Trump bankrupt America the way he bankrupted his casinos.

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending.

When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on the path to eliminating the national debt. When President Obama came into office, he inherited the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. He has cut the deficit by two-thirds.

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.