"In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments."

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Source : "Interview with The Wall Street Journal". Interview with Robert Thomson, Matt Karnitschnig, Brian Blackston, www.ecb.europa.eu. February 24, 2012.

Mario Draghi

#Government Quotes #Investment Quotes #Infrastructure Quotes

“In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.”

Source : "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.
“I've never been attracted to women sexually and I wanted romance.”
“A day without blood is like a day without sunshine!”
“You had me tied in knots. You saved Belen's life, and I wanted to kill and thank you all at the same time. And during those nights when we didn't know if you'd live or die, I went from being angry, to worried to frustrated to scared all within a single heartbeat. If you had die, I would have killed you.”
“Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.”
“I really didn't think about song writing.”
“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”
“You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.”

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