Spending Quotes - Page 16

• All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Religious, Believe, Anxiety

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• I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

  Roger Stone

  War, Believe, Islamic

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• The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous. I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point it was not enough

  Thierry Mugler

  Fashion, People, Looks

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• I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

  Pat Toomey

  Thinking, Republican, Source

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• If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

  Pat Toomey

  Increase, Bigs, Taxes

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• I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Research And Development, Community, Want

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• Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

  Assata Shakur

  Book, College, Practice

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• I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If — and the if is critical — they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.

  Ted Cruz

  Cutting, Ifs And, Debt

  "David Axelrod defends Obama's handling of economy; Ted Cruz pulls Texas-sized upset". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 05, 2012.

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• It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Government, Iron, Wife

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• What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.

  Russell Banks

  Philosophical, Believe, Waiting

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• Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world.

  Russ Feingold

  Military, Mistake, Army

  "The President’s Policies Are Breaking the U.S. Army" by Russ Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2005.

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• We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

  Alan Keyes

  Cutting, Government, Cards

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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