American politics Quote by Spiro T. Agnew

Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

— Spiro T. Agnew

Republicans can't wring their hands about inflation while continuing to support anti-vaxxers.

— Jake Auchincloss

Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.

— Timothy Noah

Like so much else in Washington, inflation has become a political football. That's unnecessary.

— Jake Auchincloss

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.

— Kenneth Rogoff

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

— Leon Henderson

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

— Venita VanCaspel

The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against…

— Paul McCulley

Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve…

— Robert A. Heinlein

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

— Paul Krugman

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring…

— Paul Krugman

It's insanity - this idea that Trump is inflationary is absurd.

— Scott Bessent