Displacement does not always mean unemployment.

Roughly 1.8 trillion.

We took a lot of heat as an administration and you did as a legislature for passing the tax bill that supposedly would run up the deficit.

we earmarked, for lack of a better word, I think it is $50 billion for things specifically like rural broadband

you cannot have the growth that you all project without a consequent simultaneous rise in interest rates.

It is no more Armageddon and no more catastrophic than what we are doing right now, spending $1.5 trillion that we do not have every year.

The administration does not believe that any particular state is condemned to permanent poverty, any group of people is condemned to permanent poverty; that everyone in every state has the ability to improve themselves.

I think it is fair to say that we are disappointed in the size of the deficit, disappointed in the fact that it does not balance.

We absolutely believe that what we have done to try and fix the economy... is good for the government.

Our estimates are that an additional 1 percent increase in GDP over the course of the 10-year window reduces the deficit by roughly $3.25 trillion.

You do not have to go down that road to permanent trillion-dollar deficits.

Is it easier to spend money than it is to cut? Absolutely.

We can choose to borrow nothing or $1 trillion, but there are limited resources at some level.

I am sure that the country's debt is much worse than I ever thought. Allowing this figure to increase compromises U.S. foreign policy.

We should be focusing on the standard of living of your unborn grandchildren.

What has not been mentioned is the doubling of the commitment we make to apprenticeship programs because we have proof that they work.

I think we have deemphasized the dignity of work for generations now and I think the budget starts to move things in a different direction.

I do not like the wait times and the hold times any more than you do.

I do not think it is possible at this point, given what has happened in the last 12 months especially, to pay off the debt in 8 years.

I continue to agree with the statement of the head of the Joint Chiefs several years ago that said one of the greatest threats to the Nation was the debt.

They have always resolved their problems by asking for more money and often getting it.

I was very disappointed to see that Democrats in the Senate did not allow the debate to go forward yesterday.

we absolutely anticipate that the deepwater ports be part of the infrastructure bill.

we were fairly disappointed in the GDP numbers in the fourth quarter.

We actually saw increases in economic growth, improvements in economic growth, before the tax bill was even actually fleshed out, let alone passed.