31.   Gore would put this extra money aside to help pay retirement benefits when Social Security is projected to start running deficits in about three decades.

32.   Governments would run unprecedented deficits that would quickly consume the savings of the developed world.

33.   His opponents say that he ran up deficits that would have meant bankruptcy and that their cost-cutting and privatization will save the country.

34.   His televised talks drew attention to the fact that the federal government was running big deficits.

35.   Ideally, most say, the budget would be in surplus in good times and run modest deficits when the economy was in recession.

36.   If you want to run a deficit and dump it all on your kids, then call the president and tell him to hang tough.

37.   In debating the amendment, Republicans tended to argue that running deficits was irresponsible, bordering on immoral.

38.   In contrast, Mexico has run trade deficits for the past six years with Europe and Asia.

39.   In its current form, the amendment would require the government to balance the budget unless three-fifths of the House and Senate vote to run a deficit.

40.   In past years, when the government ran deficits, Congress routinely spent extra receipts from Social Security taxes to run federal programs.