Spending Quotes - Page 15

• Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Differences

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• We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

  Herbert Hoover

  Presidential, Debt, Economics

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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• Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

  Peter George Peterson

  Cutting, Long, Political

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• Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people could say there's nothing to do and nothing going on in Detroit, and how could you raise your family in Detroit. My reality is that I hang around with some of the most interesting creative people in the world, people doing things that could only be done in Detroit.

  Brian Boyle

  Reality, Cities, People

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• The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.

  Phil Gramm

  Cutting, Reality, Giving Money

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• In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

  Andrew Lansley

  Reality, Reform, Cost

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• I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

  Ken Buck

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

  Pattie Brooks

  Growing Up, Father, Singing

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• Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sleep, Twenties, Use

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• Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

  Alvin Toffler

  Jobs, Play, People

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• The key to running a campaign on the cheap is to avoid spending money on anything other than projecting a message.

  Dick Morris

  Running, Keys, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

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• Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

  Dan Benishek

  Arrogance, Debt, Waste

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• Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Senior, Retirement, Believe

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• The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?

  Donald J. Carty

  Aunt, Iowa, People

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• As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.

  Frederick Russell Burnham

  Peace, War, Blood

  Frederick Russell Burnham, Mary Nixon Everett (1944). “Taking chances”

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• The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Differences, Political

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• I love being outdoors and think a tan is very sexy. I'll lie out on white towels strewn with pillows. I don't like to hide under hats. If anyone knows about spending lots of the time on the beach, with kids and dogs in tow, it's me.

  Pamela Anderson

  Sexy, Dog, Beach

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• Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...

  Ron Paul

  Military, Government, Lobbyists

  Ron Paul's speech at New Hampshire Homeschool Meet and Greet, www.youtube.com. September 30, 2007.

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Epidemics, Years

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• We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Leadership, Money, Moving

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• Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

  Bob Brown

  Money, Learning, Australia

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• Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Inspiration

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• It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Love You, People, Spending Time

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• We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

  Daniel Gilbert

  Children, Self, Tomorrow

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.13, Vintage

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• My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Brahmins, Ancestor

  "Educational Thinkers". Book by V. R. Taneja and S. Taneja, 2006.

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