Financial Stimulus Quotes

I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again. That's why I said new jobs with rising incomes, investments, not in more tax cuts that would add $5 trillion to the debt.

What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

Keynes's contribution was not just to advocate spending government money in the middle of a recession. Every government had done that going back to the days of the Irish potato famine. What he gave to us was a way of thinking about the magnitude and the dimensions and so forth.

I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

The only way we could get out of the depression was through government action in placing purchasing power in the hands of people who were in need of it.

All the central banks are doing is substituting one form of debt with another form of debt. They're issuing short term debt and using it to buy long term debt. In finance, we tend to think that's a neutral activity, even though those stimulus programs are huge.

My focus is on the financial sector, on getting credit going, getting lending flowing. I can't imagine anything that would have a bigger stimulative impact.

We want to cut the corporate taxes, which will bring back growth.