Able Quote by Jim Cooper Download Open image “President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.” — Jim Cooper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Achieve Clinton Despite Divided Government Politics President President clinton Surplus
In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really,… — Chris Van Hollen Copy Share Image
Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
No one in the modern history of this country, no president, has done more to move toward a balanced budget than has President Bill… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget? — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
With control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, Republicans could have used their unified control of government to... balance the budget! — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
The deficit only became a big problem in the Reagan-Bush years. For 12 years, Republican presidents talked about balancing the budget, but failed to… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending. — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy. — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“I would rather avoid disaster than take it out for dinner and a movie. - Chynna Lennox ” — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
