Reduction Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Long, Growth

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.

  Camille Paglia

  Egypt, Order, Greek

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

  Paul Klee

  Mistake, Mean, Simplicity

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

  Fred Upton

  People, Benefits, Might

  "Super Congress Deficit Committee Member Fred Upton: No Cuts To Social Security Benefits" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.

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• Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Organization, Risk, Development

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• Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

  Kent Conrad

  Care, Reform, Kind

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• Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the rewards that await a family then it invites more nature into children's lives.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Stress

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.131, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

  Gina McCarthy

  Risk, Levels, Pollution

  "Pruitt promised polluters EPA will value their profits over American lives" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2018.

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• Until the President produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

  Jeff Landry

  White, House, President

  "La. Rep. Refuses Obama Invitation to be "Lectured to" at GOP Debt Meeting" by L.A. Holmes, www.foxnews.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Well, now, and there's - for every dollar the federal government spends, there's real people on the other side, and so when we talk about reductions that are going to affect providers, that's going to affect hospitals and doctors and others.

  Franklin Raines

  Real, Government, Doctors

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• Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

  Christina Romer

  Details, Voters, Honest

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• Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.

  Christina Romer

  Fall, Turkeys, Office

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• The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Cutting, America

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• Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.

  Dan Quayle

  Country, Believe, Politics

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• We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

  Nicholas Stern

  Running, Risk, Half

  "Clash: Sir Nicholas Stern". Interview with David Biello, www.scientificamerican.com. November 26, 2007.

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• Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Given, Volume

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• Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

  Novalis

  Self, Unions, Sake

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.25, SUNY Press

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• Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

  Jean Chretien

  Country, Mean, Want

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• Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.

  Frederick Banting

  Dog, Exercise, Blood

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• Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

  Tony Abbott

  Retirement, Zero, Australia

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• Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in the capability of our military forces, and as a former military man myself - I was a professional naval officer, a submarine officer - I thought it was better, on a step-by-step, very carefully planned way, to increase the technical, or technological, capability of our weapons systems.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, War, Men

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• Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.

  Vinod Khosla

  Real, Technology, Goal

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first arms reduction treaty at all in the modern world, and this is quite something.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, Might, Firsts

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