KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Austan Goolsbee Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Austan Goolsbee

Showing 11-20 of 67 Quotes by Austan Goolsbee

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Altered Am Amount Behavior Commerce Company Could Data Drifted End Find Gather Good Hound Information Internet Naturally Rise Things Toward Up Whatever Working You I Am I Can

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Big Committee Diving Enter Essentially Evaluation Fire Government Hotel Lives Olympic People Pool Save Splash Throwing Too Well Windows

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Agree Back Believe Broad Business Business People Consensus Democrats Democrats And Republicans Economy Expert Faster Get Getting Ground Growing Middle Middle Ground People Political Republicans Will Work Workers You I Believe

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Bigger Combined Deepest Lifetimes Only Our Out People Recession Since Take Than Those Thrown Work You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Anticipate Before Coming Down Going Jobs Lost Million Million People More Our Part People Push Rapidly Significant Take Than Time

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Believe Cuts Evidence High Income Income Tax Period President Supports Tax Tax Cuts Think Work

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Challenges Clear Country Created Entitlement Facing Fiscal Long-Run Longer Medium Rise Run Spending Structure System

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Been Business Business People Cut Income Lowest Obama Paying People Share Since Small Small Business Taxes Times Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: Businesses Cuts Extending Percent President Small Small Businesses Tax Tax Cuts

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes.

~Austan Goolsbee

Topics: About Above Back Bill Bill Clinton Clinton Disagreement Dispute Dollars Go Highest Income Million Million Dollars Only Quarter Question Rates Should Taxes Were Where Year

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: August 18th, 1969

Links

Find Austan Goolsbee on Amazon

Related Authors

Clara Barton
Robert Bork
John Foster Dulles
Wyatt Earp
Alexander Haig
Eric Holder
J. Edgar Hoover
Elizabeth Warren

Popular Authors

Christopher Columbus Jane Goodall Zora Neale Hurston Lyndon B. Johnson Jerry Seinfeld Nina Simone Unknown Lil Wayne

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1878 - Joseph Stalin

1835 - Lyman Abbott

1852 - George H. White

1859 - Francis Thompson

1870 - Hector Hugh Munro

1886 - Ty Cobb

1888 - Robert Moses

1890 - Edwin Armstrong

1904 - George Stevens

1907 - Christopher Fry

Birthdays on December 18th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Communication Dating Environmental Finance History Inspirational Leadership Veterans Day