Christopher Buckley Quotes

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all.

I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.

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

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

Bush has never sent over a balanced budget.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

We know this much about how Barack Obama plans to govern: He will deploy the fattest checkbook ever at the disposal of an incoming American president.

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.

People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

Never in the nation’s history had a president proposed large, simultaneous spending increases and tax cuts when the federal budget already had a deficit.

When President Bush left office, the deficit was approximately $500 billion. It is now approximately now $1.5 trillion. In other words, President Obama has essentially tripled the deficit.

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.

I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.