Peter George Peterson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.
-- Peter George Peterson

#Cutting #Long #Political
Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those who become a burden to their children and society.
-- Peter George Peterson

#Life #Children #Differences
One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.
-- Peter George Peterson

#Adventure #Numbers #Safety
The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.
-- Peter George Peterson

#Experience #May #Priceless
The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.
-- Peter George Peterson

#Guy #Democrat #Particular
Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.
-- Peter George Peterson

#Hate #Block #Cutting

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of a voice. Try to find the head of a voice, the orifice through which it passes, or even the breasts to which you can attach the clips of your electrodes. Nothing. Resonant tooth.
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.

Peter George Peterson famous quotes

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