Break Quote by Michael Moore

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

— Clint Eastwood

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top…

— Malcolm Turnbull

You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a…

— Sander Levin

Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

— Ben Bernanke

We have got to cut the spending. We have got to fix Medicare and Social Security. And actually, if we don't cut spending, this…

— Paul Broun

With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of…

— George Will

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for…

— Anonymous

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and…

— Ron Fournier

We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal…

— Mitch McConnell

I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the 'fiscal cliff.'…

— Lloyd Blankfein

The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.

— Hillary Clinton

They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The…

— Judy Woodruff