George W. Bush Quotes

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.

The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a napkin - that cutting taxes would lead to higher tax revenues.

When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

There is no left or right in economic management today.

Nothing beats Reaganomics—though herpes can run it pretty close.

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Trickle down economics says that the best way to feed the birds is to give oats to the horse.

I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.