Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1411
AUTHOR:
John B. Anderson (1922 )
QUOTATION:
The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and thats what it would take.
ATTRIBUTION:
Representative JOHN B. ANDERSON, remarks at GOP Presidential Forum, Des Moines, Iowa, January 5, 1980, as reported by the Des Moines Sunday Register, January 6, 1980, p. 4A.