Economy
“Coffee is something that has been with humanity for 1,500 years. It’s not going anywhere any time soon.”
- Andrew Hetzel, consultant, CNN.com, Apr. 20, 2009. Hetzel discussed the effect on the economy on high-end coffee.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/20/coffee.recession/index.html
“I’m not making a joke about it. I’m being completely sincere, that only in Washington, D.C., is $100 million not a lot of money.”
Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, whitehouse.gov, Apr. 20, 2009. Gibbs responded to a reporter’s accusation in his daily briefing that he was joking about the deficit’s severity.
“I was just shocked. It’s really not much of an economic recovery plan to tell your wife to pull money from the bank.”
- David Young, chairman of N.C. Democratic Party, News & Observer, Apr. 16, 2009. Young responded to U.S. Sen. Richard Burr’s anecdote about instructing his wife to withdraw as much money as possible from the ATM. David Young criticized Burr’s reaction to the banking crisis.
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1487625.html
“It’s like buying a house bigger than what you can afford and not being able pay the utilities.”
-Keith Bales, US Senator (R- Mon.), helenair.com, Apr. 13, 2009. Bales commented on using the federal bail out money to build government too big without a future budget to sustain it,
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2009/04/13/top/65st_090413_bales.txt