Alice Rivlin

One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good…

— Alice Rivlin

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

— Alice Rivlin

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

— Alice Rivlin

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly.…

— Alice Rivlin

most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human…

— Alice Rivlin

Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

— Alice Rivlin

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

— Alice Rivlin

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying…

— Alice Rivlin

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

— Alice Rivlin

The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better…

— Alice Rivlin