Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

is on an unsustainable path, in which large deficits result in rising interest rates and ever-growing interest payments that augment deficits in future years.

John Spratt

It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt,

John Higgins

They also failed to save enough money during the good times in the late '90s, when there was plenty of money accumulating in the coffers. Instead of actually sensibly trying to reduce their deficits at that time they simply spent the money,

Alan Greenspan

There is a limit to how long and how far deficits can be sustained,

Scott Anderson

You can't be running record deficits forever without some impact on yields.

Jacob Lew

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

Nevada Democrat

When it comes to deficits, this president owns all the records. The three largest deficits in our nation's history have all occurred under this administration's watch.

Richard Kogan

The path of large and permanent deficits on which the government has embarked is unsound public policy and should be reversed as soon as the economy permits.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Stephen Toplis

There is no question the economy is slowing.

William Teets

We're going to do what we can to turn our economy around.

Joseph Battipaglia

What happens with Iraq is very important in January and February to pretty much set the tone for how the economy will fare for the rest of the year. So when we have that answer, then you can get your market direction. In the meantime, you essentially move sideways.

Michael Howard

would be a huge gamble with people's jobs and mortgages, putting the whole economy at risk.

Sung Sohn

We're still losing jobs, but the rate of loss is expected to slow, ... That, hopefully, will be viewed that the economy is starting to improve.

Gordon Woods

We embarked upon this expedition back in 1998, after Dolly, the sheep, was cloned.

Michael Chapman

It's ambitious, but we would never have embarked upon something of this magnitude if the numbers didn't support it.

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Jim Gulliford

We're looking for large payoffs. But they're done incrementally.

Nicholas Burns

We are (also) disappointed that Radovan Karadzic is still at large and not in the Hague,

Bible Bible

Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

Georg Brandes

About the same time as my legal studies were thus beginning, I planned out a study of Philosophy and Aesthetics on a large scale as well.

Steve Wright

It seems like a large number of providers can't find vaccine,

Grant Williamson

It's a stock which is not treading much volume these days, but it does move in quite large swings.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Chogyam Trungpa

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

Nobuyuki Oneda

We are seeing a steady recovery path in the electronics segment.

C. S. Lewis

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

Sam Marasco

We would work on a path that would culminate when things stabilized.

Yitzhak Rabin

What he did right now, pulling out of Gaza, is in the same path of my father's concept,

Carl Jung

The sure path can only lead to death.

William Shakespeare

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

Levi Levine

At first I was very upset, but once I saw the path we were on as a team, it would've been very selfish for me to only think of myself.

Rob Mullens

They don't have a permanent license, but they do get first shot.

Stephen Hess

This may be something that is not as permanent as it may look at the moment.

Irvin Lippman

The staircase will remain as a permanent work of art.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Dalai Lama

Nothing is permanent.

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

George Orwell

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Enrique Iglesias

If permanent happiness comes with someone, Id leave everything.

Bryan Robson

But I'll probably only look at that in January. It'd have to be a permanent situation if I make any decision.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bogan Durr

They need to put the receptacles back in until the university is ready to back up the policy with some enforcement.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Donald Rumsfeld

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Stephen Harper

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Bill Goldberg

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

Bill Gates

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Bob Schieffer

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.

Don Powell

It's not public works. It's not water, sewage or utilities. It's the soul of our life.

Victor Mendez

It's not just the workers. It's the traveling public we're also worried about.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

David Montgomery

We'd like to do it as soon as possible.

Howie Carr

As soon as he's caught, that's the end.

Greg Riegle

They'd like to get started on it as soon as possible.

Saadi Saadi

They should come up with it forthwith. The sooner they do it, the better it is for all concerned.

Steve Jones

They were going to have to be paring back very soon anyway.

Bobby Bowden

It's one of those things you have to do sooner or later, and we can't wait any later,