Stan Collender 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. - Stan Collender

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. - Stan Collender

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

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. - Stan Collender

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. - Stan Collender

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

In an election year, when the president's popularity is waning, I can't see Republicans walking the plank for him. - Stan Collender

I figured they'd get to about here and then find it difficult. These cuts aren't real until you see the details. - Stan Collender

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