Erskine Bowles Quotes

• Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

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• Romney said that his tax reform proposal is ‘very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.’ How I wish it were.

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• I think it’s absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within.

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• I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

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• I think that if we don’t get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

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• It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.

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  Tags in Difference, North Carolina, Families

• And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

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• I am not a politician.

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• I believe in cooperating for the common good.

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  Tags in Self, Believe

• I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

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• The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They’re not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It’s in everybody’s best interest.

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  Tags in American, Kids, Smoking

• You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses… I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don’t just deserve it. I have to earn it.

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• We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

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Birth:	8th August, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Politician

About

Erskine Boyce Bowles was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. He is an American businessman and politician. In 1975, he helped launch the investment firm of Bowles Hollowell Conner, and remained in the corporate sector until the 1990s. In 1997–98 he served as White House Chief of Staff. He served from 2005 to 2010 as the president of the University of North Carolina system. In 2010 he served as the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility. He graduated with a business degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He enrolled in Columbia Business School, where he earned an MBA.

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