Quotes About The Stimulus Package

#1. President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.

Ben Shapiro

#2. I supported the stimulus package.

Luis Fortuno

#3. Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!' ... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen.

Kevin McCarthy

#4. When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

Juan Williams

#5. Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

Doug Elmendorf

#6. If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

Lindsey Graham

#7. When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.

Arlen Specter

#8. When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#9. Finally, say that she was beautiful. That is all that can be well said. That she was beautiful, through to her bones, despite any flaw or fault.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. The ability to engage the reader, to stir feelings deep within their being, is the ultimate goal of erotic fiction. When the reader takes the place of the characters in my story, I have succeeded

Sasha Holden

#11. Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Camille Paglia

#12. The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

Christina Romer

#13. Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Peter Stuyvesant

#14. Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.

John Breaux

#15. Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Richard Steele

#16. Why does forgiveness irritate me so much?" I ask Chuck.
"Because it's the ultimate act of passive aggression," he says.
"Because it keeps sin alive," says my sister.

Abigail Thomas

#17. Only He who made man makes man happy.

Saint Augustine

#18. Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.

Mona Charen

#19. We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.

Walter Isaacson

#20. Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

Gloria Allred

#21. I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

Stephan Pastis

#22. How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay.

Sloan Wilson

#23. Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

Judd Gregg

#24. You take a chance on me, your biggest worry is your 7Up fizzing over.

Kristen Ashley

#25. I find it hard to do small roles sometimes.

Robert Taylor

#26. I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

Pat Quinn

#27. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

Andy Warhol

#28. If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

Judd Gregg