Shimon Peres Quotes

We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.

Economy: cutting down other people's wages.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.

We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

Cost reduction and cost control are by their very nature sort of anti-social activities.

To get control of the deficit we have to do something about the cost of health care. That is the part of the government budget that is toltally out of control. There is NO WAY to control the budget unless we can bend the growing health care cost down. Nothing should be off the table, but no one has submitted a budget whtch tries to control health care cost.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Our wage freeze was vital to keep wages competitive with rival companies. I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

They call it managed care but it really is only managed costs.

Early consolidation of hospitals was for efficiency to reduce costs. However in local market's consolidations have become monopolies and have increased costs.

Patients deserve increased price transparency and affordable care, particularly as the system shifts significant costs to them.

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

Everyone knows that my key drivers to moving health care policies is improving access and reducing costs and improving outcomes.

I want to drive down health care costs.

Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.

As a small-business owner who kept costs low and health care premiums flat for 10 years in my company, I know firsthand that transparency is the trick to reducing the skyrocketing health care costs that are burdening patients, employers, and our state, local, and federal governments.

If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else.

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.