Joshua B. Bolten Quotes

[Bush aides said the appropriation request would be only a small fraction of the cost of recovery and reconstruction to deal with the hurricane, which cut a swath of damage across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.] The $10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure... We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost.

- Joshua B. Bolten

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While I applaud the sentiment, I think it's not likely to be practically realistic to plan to try to offset in other places of the budget the large emergency relief that's needed in this case. - Joshua B. Bolten

For the federal government to step in after the fact... would be to undermine the effectiveness of the system. - Joshua B. Bolten

There's no doubt that the effect of the tax cuts . . . have been an enormous factor in producing the additional income that has found its way now into the federal treasury. - Joshua B. Bolten