Douglas Holtz-Eakin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.
-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin

#Socialism #Welfare #Barack
I think we all know the budgetary environment we live in. We all know the troubling future for federal deficits. They should pay for everything. This shouldn't be special on this bill or another one. The Congress has to get serious about controlling spending.
-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin

#Thinking #Special #Serious
I always think that it's important to step back and look at the facts, figure out what is big, what is small, and always target the solution and the policy issue correctly. Don't try to solve the wrong problem with unemployment insurance.
-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin

#Thinking #Important #Trying
I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.
-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin

#Thinking #People #Training
Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.
-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin

#Artist #President #Succeed

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.
Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools
When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
I don't believe in welfare.
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

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