Spending Quotes - Page 27

• Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

  Ray LaHood

  Iceland, Spain, World

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending almost twice as much per capita. We have a massively dysfunctional health care system. And I do believe in a Medicare for all single-payer system, whether a small state like Vermont can lead the nation, which I certainly hope we will, or whether it's California or some other state.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, California

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

  Nancy Pfotenhauer

  Jobs, Growth, Recipes

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• The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

  Kinky Friedman

  Educational, Texas, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing.

  Duncan Jones

  People, Dollars, Investing

  "Duncan Jones Interview Source Code". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. April 02, 2011.

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• The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

  Desmond Tutu

  Insecurity, Different, Needs

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.77, Random House

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• The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

  William James

  Learning, Men, Sticks

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.

  Dalai Lama

  Jobs, Creativity, Mean

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, Fun, Recipes

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• Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

  Pat Conroy

  Successful, Numbers, Wish

  "Flower Power in Ad Land". www.nytimes.com. April 11, 2006.

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• One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Affection, Fund

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• I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

  Nora Ephron

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

  Alan Greenspan

  Momentum, Financial, Economy

  "Fed chief sparks US rally" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2000.

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• I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

  Martina Navratilova

  Money, Lied, Enjoy

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• This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

  Ralph Nader

  Waste, Dollars, Environment

  "Cupid's To Blame For Washington Love Fest" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. February 14, 1997.

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• In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.

  Arnold Bennett

  Morning, Thinking, Ideas

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1921”

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• We will be spending less in the transfer market in future years.

  Roman Abramovich

  Years, Transfers, Spending Less

  "Abramovich: no more of the big spender" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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• John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in stark contrast to his reckless and expansive promises of new government spending on the campaign trail.

  Steve Schmidt

  Government, Years, Discipline

  "Kerry slams Bush over deficit". www.cnn.com. April 8, 2004.

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• It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, Government, White

  "No Katrina sacrifice", www.cnn.com. September 15, 2005.

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• Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.

  Philip Guston

  Artist, Past, Boredom

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• I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Past, Years, Tests

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• If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Kids, Yelling, Enough Time

  "Julie Bowen: Reese Witherspoon's mommy advice 'saved my life'". www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2016.

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• It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

  Bradley Wiggins

  Nice, House, Tvs

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• How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

  Cris Collinsworth

  Affection, Prison, Poor

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• Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles up to benefit many small, locally owned businesses.

  Mark Price

  Home, Common Sense, Benefits

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