Peter R. Orszag Quotes

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• The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply…
• If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the…
• The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is…
• Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.
• My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
• Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.
• There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.
• Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
• Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
• Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
• For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought…
• It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity…

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