Spending Quotes - Page 20

• To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Politics, Sailor

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• The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

  Tom Feeney

  Differences, Political, Sailor

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• Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

  Neal Boortz

  Reading, Political, Bills

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• I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

  Booker T. Washington

  Race, Office, Empathy

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

  Van Jones

  Government, Climate, Dollars

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• For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you've been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Sleep, Commitment

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• What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

  Walt Whitman

  Sky, Simplicity, Forever

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

  Mitch Daniels

  Burden Of Proof, Should, Prove To Me

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

  Dennis Hastert

  Senior, Doctors, America

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• As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

  Bill Richardson

  School, Thinking, Issues

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• Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

  Angelina Jolie

  Life, Children, Learning

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• The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.

  Jon Runyan

  Giving, Digging, Generations

  "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.

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• Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. You must learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Desire, Energy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

  Big Sean

  Trying, Ends, Notes

  Song: A Million Dollars, Album: Finally Famous 2: UKNOWBIGSEAN

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• We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving Up, Pain, Responsibility

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• Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

  Jay Sekulow

  Government, Order, Death Penalty

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• When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

  Jane Nelsen

  Reality, Trying, Energy

  Jane Nelsen (1986). “Understanding: Eliminating Stress and Dissatisfaction in Life and Relationships”, Empowering People Books Tapes

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• Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc.

  Malcolm Wallop

  America, Government, Long

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• The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

  Dick Armey

  Government, People, Decision

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• Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Water, Wealth

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• I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Effort, Doubt

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• My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

  Scott Rigell

  Cutting, Firsts, Republican

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• Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure is allegedly failing. Mississippians are spending more on basic needs than ever. They don’t need their state government making that worse.

  Chris McDaniel

  Museums, Government, Priorities

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• Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Attachment, Hatred

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• Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?

  Dale Bumpers

  Jobs, Military, Years

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