"The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private."

Timothy Geithner, American Public Servant

Government, Help, Investment, Now

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"The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private."

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

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"In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems."

Finance, Financial, Banks, May, Risk

"I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market."

Change,

"The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy."

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"The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting."

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"The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe."

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"Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances."

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"And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way."

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"Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done."

Choice, Choices

"The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits."

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"The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private."

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