"The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is……" — Amity Shlaes
"The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year."
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24 Quotes by Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes has 24 quotes on this site.
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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a…
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In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it…
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There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds…
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Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building…
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Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it…
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Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the…
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To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and…
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In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call…
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A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in…
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Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets…
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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a…
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More Budget Quotes
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you…
— Michele Bachmann
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If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore…
— Robert Ballard
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney…
— Joe Biden
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However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition…
— Tim Bishop
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What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What…
— Lewis Black
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The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
— Michael Bloomberg
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Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to…
— John Boehner
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It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
— George W. Bush
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You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting…
— Nicolas Cage
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I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators…
— Herman Cain
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal…
— Herman Cain
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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a…
— David Cameron
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