Peter Orszag Quotes

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.

It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

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

This country will not support a flat-liner [no economic growth] for President.

The surpluses of the [19]90s were the result of a growing economy. They were not the result of government policy.

A dynamic economy, with more citizens working and paying taxes, will be our strongest tool to bring down budget deficits

One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets.

I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.

In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only does it create jobs once: the investment creates jobs multiple times.

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

JFK and Reagan's growth model included tax cuts and a steady dollar. Trump has taken a gigantic step toward restoring prosperity with his tax-cut-centered fiscal policy.

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.