If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

- Alice Rivlin

most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a…

- Alice Rivlin

The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'Am…

- Alice Rivlin

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

- Alice Rivlin

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

- Alice Rivlin

Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

- Alice Rivlin

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they …

- Alice Rivlin

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

- Alice Rivlin

One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress] values having a credi…

- Alice Rivlin