"If you keep tax cuts for the wealthiest, it won't stimulate the economy, but it will add to the deficit. And, really, what we have to be focused on right now is what economists would call the opportunity costs."

-- Heather Boushey

#Cutting Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Economy Quotes

“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

Source : John Marshall (1836). “The life of George Washington: commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States”, p.447
“A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.”
“Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground”

Source : Song: Skyscraper, Album: Unbroken, 2011
“We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.”
“If people talk behind your back, it's because you're ahead of them.”
“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
“We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.”
“If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.”

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