Tim Cook Quotes

Political leaders cannot survive as advocates of near-permanent austerity on the basis of directives imposed from abroad.

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The country needs a leader like Modi. He should come to the national level politics.

From the beginning of this century, for a decade as chief minister of Gujarat and for just over four years as India's PM, Modi has made an indelible mark in the annals of our history.

In Modiji, we have given India a 'mazboot' leader under whom India has emerged among the top economies.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

Obama hasn't passed a budget in four years, he's a wuss. Obama has rejected the recommendation of his own Simpson-Bowles, on a budget package, he's a wuss. He wants to lead from behind, he's a wuss!

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

The easiest things to do in Congress are to cut taxes and raise spending.

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.

I'm an opposition leader. But Mr Modi is also my prime minister. Mr Modi has certain skills. He's a very good communicator.

I was encouraged to stand for Parliament by David Cameron, and he has given me the opportunity to serve in what I believe is a great, reforming government. I think he is an outstanding Prime Minister.