Quotes by Jacob Lew

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If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

Jacob Lew

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

Jacob Lew

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

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I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

Jacob Lew

Most Americans want health insurance.

Jacob Lew

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.

Jacob Lew

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.

Jacob Lew

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 sustainabilit...

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Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We sho...

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The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

Jacob Lew

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

Jacob Lew

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 sh...

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

Jacob Lew

Congress should get the job done.

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The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

Jacob Lew

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

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

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It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

Jacob Lew

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

Jacob Lew

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

Jacob Lew