Erskine Bowles Quotes

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.

Erskine Bowles

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• Deficits
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• The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Country
  • Now

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Live
  • Country
  • Gun

• Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• I was definitely very much a country boy.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Country Boy

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Country
  • Real
  • Sometimes

• Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Long
  • Country
  • Want

• I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • Play

• I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Country
  • Travel

• The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Weapons

• Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Feel
  • Human

• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Men
  • Country
  • War

• I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Country
  • Before

• A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San Francisco and Portland and Los Angeles. I don't know if six states is a solution because is Washington, D.C. and the rest of the country really going to give California 10 new senators?

  

  Doug LaMalfa
  • People
  • Country
  • Rest

• I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Country
  • Friends

• I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Country
  • Society
  • Racism

• The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Country
  • Fighting

• The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.

  

  Joss Stone
  • Music
  • Country
  • Own

• In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Present

• Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

  

  Daniel Harvey Hill
  • Men
  • Persevere
  • Membership

• ...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Know
  • Realize
  • Loneliness

• In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • Feelings
  • Brother

• I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.

  

  Erskine Bowles
  • Country
  • Destroy
  • Deficits