Spending Quotes - Page 35

• Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

  Grover Norquist

  Caring, Accomplishment, Doe

  "Grover Norquist vs. the Pentagon". Interview with Michael D. Ostrolenk, www.theamericanconservative.com. October 24, 2012.

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• The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Goal, Focus

  "Grover Norquist: 'The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

  J. G. Ballard

  Thinking, Trying, Would Be

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• My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

  Roger Federer

  Heart, World, Mum

  "Federer's heart is in South Africa". Interview by Xola Potelwa, uk.reuters.com. February 22, 2013.

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• Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

  Marian Keyes

  Mean, Might, Territory

  Marian Keyes (2009). “The Brightest Star in the Sky”, p.91, Penguin UK

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• This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

  Meg Cabot

  Athlete, Artist, People

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• When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

  Tim Worstall

  Jobs, People, Lobbying

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• The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Disease, Symptoms, Deficit

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Player, Years, Games

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• While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

  Fred Upton

  Reform, Needs, Entitlement

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• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

  J. I. Packer

  Moving, Technology, Next

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• Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

  John Hagee

  Spiritual, Decision

  Twitter post from Jul 01, 2016

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• Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

  Hank Johnson

  Government, Promise, Generations

  "Social Security Is Not the Problem" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

  Jim Jordan

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Years, Too Much

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

  John P. Wheeler III

  War, Moving, Agency

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• One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

  Vernon Howard

  Money, Absurd, Cures

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• What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Couple, Real

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• I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Political, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• People have had certain ­assumptions in the past about ­Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively ­reduce.

  Jeremy Hunt

  Art, Past, Government

  "Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt: 'It is going to be tough'". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

  Daley Thompson

  Doctors, Years, Long

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• As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.

  Patti Stanger

  Men, Two, Long

  "The Millionaire Matchmaker Knows How To Love Like a Hot Chick". Interview with Jodi Lipper, Cerina Vincent, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.

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• I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family's not around, when I'm on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how important rest is to that job. I'm pretty boring.

  Mark Teixeira

  Jobs, Sleep, Important

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• I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.

  Gerry Adams

  Sunday, Years, News

  "Gerry Adams: 'I'm happy with who I am ... it's very important to be a subversive'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Basketball, Years, Nba

  "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.

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