Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what the largest deficit was, but I think that everyone got to really enjoy what I've had an opportunity to enjoy all year, and that's just how tough our women really are, how strong they are, strong in character. They showed a lot of fight and I'm very proud of them.

In the next several months we might see some record highs in the trade deficit with the rise in oil prices as well.

In general, the twin deficits (trade and federal) will be an ongoing source of volatility in the dollar and interest rates.

The greatest tool we have for reducing the deficit is a growing economy because of the revenue that results.

Judd Gregg

It will mean the deficit goes up probably 150 (billion dollars), maybe even more,

It's fairly safe to say that the trade deficit may have peaked now that oil prices are falling and the U.S. economy is showing signs of slowing down.

It suggests the drag on the economy from the trade deficit in the third quarter will not be as great and could help revise up third-quarter GDP a bit,

Following the accident, there's downside risks to exports in January, so the trade deficit may be wider than we expect.

It means we have to find more sponsors and make up for the deficit it presents us with.

It's a whopper. The very large and worrying deficit reflects the imbalances facing the New Zealand economy.

With the year-on-year deficit in gasoline and with economic growth it is hard to be bearish about energy in the short or medium term. The manufacturing and retail numbers, the regional and national numbers, wherever you look they are positive. The same goes for overseas.

The shot were dropping and all of the sudden, we turned the six-point deficit into a six-point lead.

After it got so close, you knew it was going to come down to the end. Would I rather be a half-game up at this point? There's no doubt about it. If we can't make up a half-game deficit over the last 10 games, it wasn't meant to be anyway.

Alan Greenspan

is on an unsustainable path, in which large deficits result in rising interest rates and ever-growing interest payments that augment deficits in future years.

John Spratt

It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt,

John Higgins

They also failed to save enough money during the good times in the late '90s, when there was plenty of money accumulating in the coffers. Instead of actually sensibly trying to reduce their deficits at that time they simply spent the money,

The widening trade deficit is negative for the dollar. We see no way for the U.S. trade gap to narrow.

The rise in oil prices was always likely to hit these numbers with a vengeance, and the petroleum deficit duly rose by $1.4 billion.

David Dunn

This is the first time in years that I can remember that we are not in a deficit situation. We have zero deficit and we have zero surplus.

The way we hit the ball, we feel like there is never a deficit that we can't get back with a big inning or two. That's a real nice feather to have in your cap.

That's just the type of player Josh is. He's always been there when we need a big play. That goal made such a huge difference. It was a two-goal deficit instead of three.

You still have a sizable year-on-year deficit in distillate stocks, so it's too early in the winter to write off this distillate market.

Paul Gillmor

The only way to reduce our expenses and reverse deficit spending is by reevaluating the programs which we as Americans have come to expect.

We're actually more in a deficit than we were at the height of the drought when the lake was at its lowest level back on Nov. 20.

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.

Early next week you've got a trade deficit number and retail sales, and those reports could be volatile.

Folks are trying to do away with it because they want the money for deficit reduction.

Scott Anderson

You can't be running record deficits forever without some impact on yields.

We had a hard time scoring today. We're not the type of team that's made to come back from a big deficit like that, and once we got down 13 or 14, it was hard to come back.

As the U.S. external deficit rises, so does the risk of a hard landing for the dollar, the U.S. economy, and the world economy.

To be down by that deficit and to hold that team to 35 points in the first half, we thought, OK, we've got them where we want them.

Within a few months, the deficit will be widening to new records.

We improved in May, but it looked too good, so we may have some payback and that could move the market. The possibility of a record deficit would be a shock. It's a negative risk for the equity market.