The Stockman Quotes

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

David Stockman

#2. 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

#3. The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty.

Shawn Stockman

#4. Bono has commented often that U2 did everything the wrong way around. Other bands started singing about girls and then found the issues in the cosmos and started singing about God; U2 started singing about God and eventually ended up doing a love album.

Steve Stockman

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

David Stockman

#6. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

Steve Stockman

#7. A darkened theater. Final whispers. Black. The projector streams through. The picture surrounds. I fall away. You reach me.

Jolene Stockman

#8. You've got one life, one shot, and all the power to make it happen. Get ready to dream big and live big. It's all up to you. And it starts now.

Jolene Stockman

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

David Stockman

#10. Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

Steve Stockman

#11. A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is also an enemy of the reality that following Jesus is a journey, not an arrival.

Steve Stockman

#12. The best thing about the Earth is if you poke holes in it oil and gas comes out." - Republican U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman, 20131

Naomi Klein

#13. Expect writers to do more than sit and study the works of those they hope to emulate. Encourage them to cut mentor texts open - physically.

Angela Stockman

#14. Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

Steve Stockman

#15. The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.

Steve Stockman

#16. The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.

Jolene Stockman

#17. The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

Thomas Stockman

#18. If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.

Steve Stockman

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

David Stockman

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

David Stockman

#21. There is no real world, just the one you create.

Jolene Stockman

#22. If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.

Steve Stockman

#23. I think part of what makes us unique as artists and as singers is that we can bare our souls in front of millions of people That's the magic and power of being an artist. You can be honest. Always remember that. And do not be afraid.

Shawn Stockman

#24. The new fad thing that's going through America and around the world. It's called global warming.

Steve Stockman

#25. Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it.

Amy Andrews

#26. So many of those who take Christ into the world, whether it be it's missionaries or artists, are tied by those who look over their shoulders. There is a lot of peer pressure within churches and Christian movements to dot all the i's and cross all the t's of a precise and perfect faith.

Steve Stockman

#27. In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Steve Stockman

#28. 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

#29. Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.

Steve Stockman

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

David Stockman

#31. 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