Jay Carney famous quotes

04-17-2025

I think, if you're a candidate and you want to be totally safe, and assure that what you say is not going to be recorded or broadcast on the Internet, you have to have something like safe cone. Everything is so viral right now that you have to assume as a candidate that anything you say will be broadcast.
-- Jay Carney

#Thinking #Safe #Want
I`m going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves.
-- Jay Carney

#Night #Relief #Needs
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.
-- Jay Carney

#America #Pay #Bills
The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.
-- Jay Carney

#Thinking #Order #People
So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.
-- Jay Carney

#Jobs #Focus #Economy
We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation.
-- Jay Carney

#Jobs #Believe #Growth
I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago - the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy.
-- Jay Carney

#Thinking #Impact #Two
We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.
-- Jay Carney

#Jobs #Believe #Growth
Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.
-- Jay Carney

#Video #Offensive #Disgusting
I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.
-- Jay Carney

#Victory #Biden #Excited
The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.
-- Jay Carney

#Communication #Nsa #President
Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?
-- Jay Carney

#Records #Economic #Certain
The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.
-- Jay Carney

#Jobs #Government #White
When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.
-- Jay Carney

#Lying #White #House
And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.
-- Jay Carney

#Jobs #Party #Choices
But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is an incredible engine for creativity and innovation. And it has the most - smartest, most effective workforce in the world. So we have a lot going for us, in spite of the fractiousness of our politics.
-- Jay Carney

#Powerful #Creativity #Thinking
Benghazi happened a long time ago.
-- Jay Carney

#Long #Benghazi
Well, I haven't seen the records. I haven't seen Hilary Rosen; I personally know three Hilary Rosen's, so I don't know that this Hilary Rosen is the one we're talking about.
-- Jay Carney

#Talking #Three #Records
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
-- Jay Carney

#Bridges #Defense #Cost
This president's committed to taking steps to move the Middle East peace process forward, to bringing the two parties to the table to negotiate a lasting peace. That is the only way that a two-state solution can be achieved that provides the security that Israel deserves and needs and the sovereignty that the Palestinian people seek.
-- Jay Carney

#Party #Moving #Israel
What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.
-- Jay Carney

#Foundation #World #Republican
... Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information
-- Jay Carney

#Nsa #Effort #Answers

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