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Former Director Of The Office Of Management And Budget Inspirational Quotes (33)

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The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.
Alice Rivlin
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The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
Alice Rivlin
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Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.
Alice Rivlin
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Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
Caspar Weinberger
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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
Roy Ash
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Bert Lance
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One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.
Alice Rivlin
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Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
David Stockman
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In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five per cent have net worth of $40 trillion. The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.
David Stockman
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One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.
David Stockman
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Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.
Bert Lance
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We need a wealth tax that on a one-time basis is going to take back at least some small fraction of the great windfall that the upper 1 percent, or 5 percent and pay down the government debt, pay back the federal debt because we can't put this on the next generation or they're going to be buried paying taxes.
David Stockman
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Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.
David Stockman
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The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
Alice Rivlin
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My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
Peter R. Orszag
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There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
Peter R. Orszag
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Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
Peter R. Orszag
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The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.
Peter R. Orszag
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I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.
David Stockman
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When in doubt, grab power.
Caspar Weinberger
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If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
Alice Rivlin
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It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.
Peter R. Orszag
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Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
Peter R. Orszag
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Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.
David Stockman
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