Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thi…

- John Spratt

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 bill…

- John Spratt

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a p…

- John Spratt

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein i…

- John Spratt

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 de…

- John Spratt

We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the bud…

- John Spratt

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; a…

- John Spratt

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, full…

- John Spratt

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

- John Spratt