We Have A Sluggish Economy ... That's Why I Favor This Deficit So Much. -- President George Bush

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• 7/16/89] I've had no indication from home, nor have we picked up any here that they felt that the US economy was going to move towards a recession.
  [10/4/91] The economy is moving in the right direction....
• They're enormous! -- President George Bush, on the previous eight years'deficits, -- Day 12 of the Bush presidency.
  He didn't understand the deficit until after the election....
• Although I believe that the economy is on the right track, let me be the first to say that all is not well.
  -- President George Bush, September 1991...
• We have engaged in a very -- a very -- an extraordinarily broad exercise of diplomacy here .
  .. I don't know what -- what it means fully. -- President George Bush...
• We finally get a policy-making body, but we have no policy to make.
  -- An aide to President George Bush, March 1992...
• While our economy may be beset by difficulty, it should not be beset by doubt.
  -- President George Bush, February 1991...
• Since we began restoring pride in the United States of America.
  .. flag sales have taken off. -- President George Bush...
• I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions --but I don't always agree with them.
  -- George Bush, US Preside...
• We have been pushing the idea George Bush is going to make matters much, much worse by holding the line on taxes, a balanced budget amendment.
  .. -- Vice President Dan Quayle while on "CBS This Morning," 10/27/92....