David Stockman Quotes

#1. If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

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#2. The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.

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#3. I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries ...

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#4. 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.

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#5. Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.

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#6. A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.

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#7. Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

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#8. The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

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#9. Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that's not true at all.

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#10. I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

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#11. It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

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