And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
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The wider-than-expected deficit is due to high oil prices, which have now peaked. The growth in the value of imports will not last as we expect crude prices will cool later this year.
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Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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The current account deficit is a ticking time bomb. We don't know when it s going to explode, but it cannot continue the way the White House describes.
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There are 1011 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
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I'm not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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The greatest tool we have for reducing the deficit is a growing economy because of the revenue that results.
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The reason why we're facing that deficit is because of the tax cut, so I hope that no one will be misled or in any way fooled by this notion that somehow it's the downturn of the economy or it's the war on terrorism,
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[There are, of course, several reasonable explanations for what happened. In the three years prior to last season, Miami lost eight underclassmen that went on to become first-round NFL draft picks. It was bound to catch up at some point] Last year we could have had [safety Sean ] Taylor , [tight end Kellen ] Winslow , [defensive tackle Vince ] Wilfork and McGahee , ... I don't know, does that win you a game in overtime or erase a six-point deficit [against Virginia Tech?]
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The trade deficit remains the single most important tax on U.S. growth and burden on American workers.
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I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
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