Bill Clinton Quotes

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

Government has always driven growth.

The army did more to shape the pattern and direction of economic development than did any other federal agency, any state government, or any private agency.

We need to take bold action to invest in infrastructure projects to spur our economy and ensure that we are protecting good paying jobs.

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

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.

The great effort of my administration was to mature into a permanent and regular system the application of all the superfluous revenue of the Union into internal improvement which at this day would have afforded high wages and constant employment to hundreds of thousands of laborers, and in which every dollar of the public lands would have repaid itself fourfold in the enhanced value of the public lands.

We had massive tax cuts in the early phases of the [George W.] Bush years… The decade following was the worst growth rate in over 60 years.

The best way to revitalize the economy is war, and the U.S. has grown stronger [economically] with war.

Secretary Clinton, right from day one, wants to do real investment in public works and infrastructure, building highways and bridges, building airports, to doing what we need to do that way which lifts the economy up, undoubtedly.

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

Countries with fiscal space should invest in physical and social infrastructure to raise potential growth.

Especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted tribal communities, we must invest in infrastructure in order to advance economic recovery and create much-needed jobs.

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.

When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to be a time at which point debt has to be taken care of.

Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending.

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.