Richard Darman

“Let's face it: the budget is a bunch of lies.”

“We are in a trap... a politician's trap... It is a pleasure-pain trap. The pleasure is to be able to vote for lower taxes. The pain is to be held responsible for higher deficits.”

“In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.”

“The single most important issue in the 1988 campaign is the need to select a president who is not a dope.”

“I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another.”

“The politics of entitlement are part of the core of the problem.”

“This is not a matter of 'read my lips.' It's a matter of 'read my logic.'”

“The idea of a balanced budget is, to me, something that is a little naive.”

“You cannot have a sensible economic policy without a sensible budget policy.”