Ari Melber Quotes

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.

Last year 100,000 people gathered on The Mall to Protest the deficit. We Republicans, over and over, castigated President Obama for creating a Trillion dollar deficit. I was against big deficits then, and I am agaist them now. Just because it is now Republicans doing all the spending, I am still opposed.... Those Republcians who voted for a tax cut and a spending increase are hypocrites.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

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.'

Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demanding that Democrats put forth serious proposals to reduce spending.

As I'm learning, Republicans seem to only care about deficits when a Democrat is in the White House.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

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

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just continue with more of the same or, as the case is now, to make it worse. Under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's budget, we will double the national debt in five years and triple it in 10.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

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

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

Financial markets will tolerate a Republican deficit but will run screaming in panic from a Democratic deficit a fraction its size.

Social spending is going up at a tremendous rate. The irony is that it went up even faster during the “prudent” years of Republican administration more so than it did under the “spendthrift” Democratic administrations….

The cozy world we were told would go on forever, where full employment would be guaranteed by a stroke of the Chancellor’s pen, cutting taxes, deficit spending—that cozy world is gone.

Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?