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American
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Public Servant
Born:
August 29
, 1955
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
Jack Lew
Numbers
Values
Expression
Budget
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew
People
World
Service
Think
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.
Jack Lew
Future
Path
Challenges
Long
In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Jack Lew
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Security
More
Budget
I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
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I Think
Urgency
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.
Jack Lew
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Debt
Years
Economy
There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Jack Lew
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Trust
Think
Ahead
We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
Jack Lew
Unemployment
Like
Low
Get
Congress should get the job done.
Jack Lew
Job
Done
Congress
Get
I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.
Jack Lew
Work
Time
Think
Short
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The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.
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Moment
Tradition
Look
There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
Jack Lew
Government
Serious
Question
Policy
It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
Jack Lew
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Back
Security
Pay
The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.
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Democracy
People
Way
Hard
If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
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Never
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Solution
It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
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True
Will
Be True
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
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Health
People
Care
Think
Most Americans want health insurance.
Jack Lew
Health
Want
Insurance
Most
If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
Jack Lew
Family
Health
You
Job
Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.
Jack Lew
Government
Way
Go
Find
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
Jack Lew
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Privilege
President
Every
Social Security is something that we need to deal with, because people who are working today, who will retire in the future, people who are retired today, they have a right - and it's part of the compact that they can depend on their benefits. We should fix the long-term funding problem of Social Security because that's the right thing to do.
Jack Lew
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Today
People
Problem
If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
Jack Lew
Health
You
Look
Insurance
I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.
Jack Lew
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Church
Differences
Within
Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.
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Trying
Europe
Get
Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.
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