Stan Collender Quotes (7 Quotes)

Whenever you talk about something 10 years from now, it's always basically going to be guesswork, something approaching science fiction and fantasy more than reality.

The president's budget is not the agenda-setting development or event that it used to be. They use it to make a political statement. It should in no way be taken as what they would actually do or what they actually want or what they're ultimately going to accept.

This president is losing his capacity to get a major domestic accomplishment because he is unwilling to put any portion of the tax cuts for the highest-income Americans on the table.

There is no consensus at all about what the budget debate is supposed to accomplish.

It's a way for the administration to get around its 'we'll never-raise-taxes' attitude.

The numbers themselves are far less important than how much they changed the politics of the budget debate. In a classic only-Nixon-can-go-to-China situation, Reagan made deficits acceptable.

It's a shadow of its former self, and it wasn't much to begin with.