Jacob Lew Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.”

“Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.”

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

“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?'”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.”

“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.”