"Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing."

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Source : "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 12, 2009.

Peter R. Orszag

#Lasts Quotes #Treasury Quotes #Borrowers Quotes

“lf youâ€™re going to deal with reality, youâ€™re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people donâ€™t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Donâ€™t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, itâ€™s going to take care of everything for you.”
“I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.”
“It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done”
“The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.”
“We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.”
“People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.”
“I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.”

Source : "Navid Negahban: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. November 25, 2009.

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