Alice Rivlin Quotes

#1. The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

Alice Rivlin

#2. 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

#3. Most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

Alice Rivlin

#4. If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

Alice Rivlin

#5. We may say with some confidence that the most apparently beneficent products of science and industry should be held in suspicion if they are costly to consumers or bring power to governments or profits to corporations. There

Wendell Berry

#6. It's always the most patriotic asshole in the room that has absolutely no concept of what patriotism actually means.

Sam L. Amirante

#7. It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

Alice Rivlin

#8. Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

Alice Rivlin

#9. 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

#10. Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Alice Rivlin

#11. I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.

Laila Ali

#12. The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

Alice Rivlin

#13. Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented.
Reality needs none of the above.

Manoj Vaz

#14. Why would anyone want to celebrate the day they died? said Ron, who was halfway through his Potions homework and grumpy.

J.K. Rowling

#15. It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.

A. J. Hawk