Jay Carney Quotes

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• Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you…
• When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I…
• And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions…
• But the - look, I think that this - the United States of America is still the most powerful economy in the world. It is…
• Benghazi happened a long time ago.
• Well, I haven't seen the records. I haven't seen Hilary Rosen; I personally know three Hilary Rosen's, so I don't know that this Hilary Rosen…
• Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
• This president's committed to taking steps to move the Middle East peace process forward, to bringing the two parties to the table to negotiate a…
• What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a…
• The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.
• Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic…
• The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will…
• So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure…
• We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we…
• I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago…
• We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a…
• Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.
• I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.
• In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction…
• The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President…

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