Jason Furman Quotations

The president's proposal would reduce benefits for people living on Social Security and subject what was left to substantially greater risk.

We've had 11 previous presidents (since then), Democrats, Republicans. They faced wars, they faced recessions, they faced all sorts of challenges, ... Every one of them managed to create jobs until George Bush.

The traditional misery index is worse right now than it was in 2001.

They may not think that that's a problem, but John Kerry thinks deficits do matter.

This president didn't sound particularly concerned about the 46 million people without health insurance.

It's not about health care. No one needs to put away $10,000 a year and have it accumulate to hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for health care.

We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.