Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician Paul O'Neill.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Paul Henry O'Neill was an American economist and government official who served as the 72nd United States secretary of the treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first term, from January 2001 to December 2002. He was fired in December 2002 for his public disagreement with the administration. Prior to his term as secretary of the treasury, O'Neill was chairman and CEO of industrial giant Alcoa and chairman of the RAND Corporation.
I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.
This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.
I pray daily... for peace.
I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.