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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. J. Carter Brown

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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily. J. Carter Brown

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We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term. Jack Lew

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In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. Jack Lew

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I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues. Jack Lew

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There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us. Jack Lew

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We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can. Jack Lew

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The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037. Jack Lew

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It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back. Jack Lew

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If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution. Jack Lew

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If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without. Jack Lew

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Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books. Jack Lew

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Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority. Jack Lew

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I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues. Jack Lew

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In the real world, answers may not be clear cut. There will be messy choices, and you're not going to be able to construct a policy response in a neat and tidy way. Being able to listen to other people, even as you stay true to your principles, that's how you actually succeed. Jake Sullivan

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When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career. James Clapper

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I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump. James Clapper

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The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life. James Clapper

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The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam. James Clapper

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The most pervasive cyber threat to the U.S. financial sector is from cyber criminals. James Clapper

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In this job, I've found the less I talk, the better. James Clapper

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