Erskine Bowles Quotes

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

  Erskine Bowles

  Leadership, Successful, Keys

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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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  Country, Cancer, Thinking

  "How US Can Avert Fiscal Cliff: 'We've Got Some Hope'". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. July 12, 2012.

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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.

  Erskine Bowles

  Thinking, Together, Faces

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• I believe in cooperating for the common good.

  Erskine Bowles

  Believe, Common, Cooperating

  CNN profile, www.cnn.com. March 3, 1997.

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• The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

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  Innovation, Debt, Threat

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• I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

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  Arithmetic, Okay

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• I am not a politician.

  Erskine Bowles

  Politician

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• 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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  Real, Weakness, Want

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• I believe in working in a bipartisan manner.

  Erskine Bowles

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

  www.cnn.com. March 3, 1997.

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

  Erskine Bowles

  Competition, Live For Today, Faces

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