Erskine Bowles Quotes

#1. I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.

Peter George Peterson

#2. I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

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#3. The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

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#4. I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

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#5. I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.

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#6. Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

Lloyd Bridges

#7. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

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#8. It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

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#9. We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

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#10. Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

Mindy Kaling

#11. I would rather get offended than defending myself, though if it isn't my mistake. Just to see that beautiful smile on your face.

Naveed Baji

#12. I believe in cooperating for the common good.

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#13. Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

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#14. I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

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#15. It's the journey that's important, not the getting there!

John McLeod

#16. And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

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#17. If you won't go to discover your promise land and gift, you will be mocked.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses ... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

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#19. Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Demosthenes

#20. I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.

Dave Eggers

#21. The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.

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#22. I am not a politician.

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#23. As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

Melissa Bean