Maxine Waters Quotes

How does a government reduce expenditures? To be absolutely flat about it, 99 per cent of it is accomplished by putting people out of work. Now that is a tough way to say it, but it is a fact.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.