Fiscal Cliff Quotes

• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  Carl Levin

  Responsibility, Aquariums, Accountability

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• With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.

  George Will

  Mistake, Party, Government

  "A cliff of Democrats' choosing" by George Will, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• 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

  Cutting, Law, Important

  "Highlights: Bernanke's Q&A testimony to House panel". Ben Bernanke's remarks during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing at Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.reuters.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Cliffs, Pentagon

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• In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

  Bill McKibben

  Euro Crisis, Years, Cliffs

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• Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

  Chris Christie

  Fall, Long, Tunes

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

  Michael Moore

  Trying, Cliffs, Rich

  "An Open Letter to President Obama" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• 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 sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

  Ron Fournier

  Self, Class, Roots

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

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Worry, Cliffs

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• If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

  Chris Christie

  America, United States, Would Be

  "Christie: Obama remarks an 'outrage'" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.

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