Economic Constraint Quotes

A man in debt is so far a slave.

It is extremely difficult to rescind entitlements to which people think they are legally entitled. Taxes can easily go up and down. There isn’t the same political pressure.

There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

The closest thing you ever get to a cut is a decrease in the rate of increase of government spending.

The ethnic enclave’s warm embrace becomes an economic stranglehold.

Who wants to live in a world where you can only stay in the lane of your birth?

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

If you owe $50,000 for your education, you are not going to be able to start a small business when you graduate.

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

Our whole family had been sports oriented. My dad had played a lot of semipro but never had any opportunity to do anything with it. Back then, he had to make a living.

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

When they talk about belt-tightening in Washington, they are talking about tightening our belts.

The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

In a mixed economy the public sector remains constrained by the overarching requirement of maintaining an efficient and profitable private sector.

It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget.