David Stockman Quotes

#1. My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Charles Francis Richter

#2. If there was a way out of this mess, he'd find it. If there wasn't, I would run with him until we got far enough away to start over.

Celia Aaron

#3. Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

William Safire

#4. 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.

David Stockman

#5. I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

Novak Djokovic

#6. What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

Salomon Bochner

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

David Stockman

#8. He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.

Janet Fitch

#9. No one knows enough to worry.

Terence McKenna

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

David Stockman

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

David Stockman

#12. PHI4.23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Anonymous

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

David Stockman

#14. 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.

David Stockman

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

David Stockman

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

David Stockman

#17. In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled.

Brad Goreski

#18. I've made my peace and I'm ready to face whatever comes next. You can send me on in the knowledge that we're closing in on you and that this may well be the last murderous act you commit. [Hannah Wilde]

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#19. I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

Bo Jackson

#20. Just because it's what's done doesn't mean it's what should be done!

Unknown

#21. The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people's lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

Hermann Hesse

#22. To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower,

Herb Kelleher

#23. 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

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

David Stockman

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

David Stockman