Timothy Noah Quotes

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

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

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

I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was—an Arctic region covered with ice.

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.

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

I am a Reagan Republican.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?

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

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.