Words matter. These are the best Jack Lew Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.
Congress should get the job done.
If you have a student who graduates from college and they don’t have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn’t cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
I think it’s very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They’re different issues.
The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.
I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.
I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
If you don’t define the problem you’ll never reach a painful solution.
There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, ‘Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?’
Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
Most Americans want health insurance.
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
There are lots of ways to work together.
The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.
In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.
It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
I can’t speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.
Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn’t involve any new spending.
It’s going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
