Quotes About Retrenchment

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.

We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.

I am for peace, retrenchment, and for reformthirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.

An employer who is truly visionary creates a big employment even when the time is recessionary ; but a businessman who is just ordinary shuts down own units abruptly during the economic slowdown period and creates a retrenchment of the employees.

Both the Left and the Right have a long history of advocating American retreat and retrenchment. The difference is that liberals want to come home because they think we are not good enough for the world. Conservatives want to wash their hands of the world because they think the world is not good enough for us.