"The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits."

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Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

Timothy Geithner

#Hurt Quotes #Recovery Quotes #Commitment Quotes

“The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.”
“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

Source : Cory Booker @CoryBooker, twitter.com. May 17, 2015.
“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.”
“People always say, 'Well, celebrity spokespersons have private consultants'. Well, with Jenny Craig everybody gets a private consultant.”
“By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.”
“Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.”
“I like Washington a great deal. I enjoyed living there. But then I've enjoyed living almost everywhere I've ever been. I just find that it's a different menu wherever you go.”
“I can see every monster as they come in.”

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