"It took the first 204 years of our……" — Jim Cooper

"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."

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28 Quotes by Jim Cooper

Jim Cooper has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even…
Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which…
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably…
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.
President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.
The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of…
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield…
This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families.…
If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest,…
While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit…

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More Accumulate Quotes

This quote is filed under Accumulate Quotes, one of 265 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. — Arthur Bloch
I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that… — Jo Brand
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations… — William J. Brennan
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. — Andrew Carnegie
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. — Noam Chomsky
We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's… — Arianna Huffington
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A J P Taylor
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. — Wayne Dyer

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