Malpass Quotes

#1. A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Richard Ellmann

#3. If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform.

David Malpass

#5. I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

Chris Christie

#6. The more I learn about life and people, the more I realise that everyone has a story and everyone's story is the biggest in their own mind." - Laylla Jonson

L.B. Malpass

#7. For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

David Malpass

#8. The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

Charles Kuralt

#9. Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.

David Malpass

#10. It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January
that will affect how many rate hikes we'll have this spring.

David Malpass

#11. Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

David Malpass

#12. Mrs. Darling to May Pentecost who showed Mrs. Darling her room:
"I shall unpack my china in here, if your husband will be kind enough to bring it up. I do think it's important to be surrounded by pretty things, don't you?

Eric Malpass

#13. To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

David Malpass

#14. People's jobs are the biggest asset that they have. The net present value of your job is worth more than your house or your stock portfolio. As people decide whether they're going to buy a car, they're more concerned about whether they have a job and are likely to have a job next year.

David Malpass

#15. The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

David Malpass

#16. The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there's a limited amount of capital and you've got to figure where it's going. And if your currency is weakening, that means you're paying a load.

David Malpass

#17. I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like to see the dollar strong because the Fed has said it wants it to be strong in the future.

David Malpass

#18. If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?

David Malpass

#19. Just like a butterfly, I had sprung from my cocoon for the first time. For my risk, I was rewarded with Jacob Bennett." - Laylla Jonson (Beneath the Blossom Tree)

L.B. Malpass

#20. Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.

David Malpass

#21. When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

David Malpass