20 Quotes by Peter Orszag

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

The accounts are not sugar; they're like trying to get your kid to eat the spinach by offering a turnip for dessert.

We're not fully using those accounts and they're not working as well as they could. Let's take those accounts we already have and make them work better, rather than creating a new system of accounts.

We should shore up the program, but we don't need to destroy it in order to save it.

There is plenty of scope to offset the costs of Katrina.

To improve the style of the 401(k), we should recognize the power of inertia in human behavior and enlist it to promote rather than hinder savings.