“If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldAsksPayPercentHundredBillsDebtSpendingSignificantObligationMisunderstandingCeilingsGlass CeilingDebt Ceiling Author:Peter Welch
“Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.” ThinkingOur LivesHundredDollarsSpending Book:Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life Source: Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life
“Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones?” ThinkingTwoHumorFormPoliticalAnswersFiveHundredProgramPhonesSpendingEightyFilesBureaucratsPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.” PeopleFeelsSeemsThousandMarriedHundredDollarsSpendingAbsurdGetting Married Author:Jack Black
“I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.” MenBelieveStillsDoneMillionsTaughtArmsProudThousandHundredEuropeStandingArmyVery GoodSpendingPityGradesAirplaneBe ProudTanksJuniorsCivicsI Still BelieveSixth GradeGood Grades Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“We prosecuted two of the biggest terrorism cases in the world and stopped Fort Dix from being attacked by six American radicalized Muslims from a Mosque in New Jersey because we worked with the Muslim American community to get intelligence and we used the Patriot Act to get other intelligence to make sure we did those cases. This is the difference between actually been a federal prosecutor, actually doing something, and not just spending your life as one of hundred debating it.” WorldTwoUsedCommunityDifferencesCasesSixHundredTerrorismSpendingPatriotJerseyNew JerseyMosquesProsecutorFortsPatriot ActActually Doing Something Author:Chris Christie
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.” WayLifeEyeUniverseUnderstandingSleepAnswersMorningMillionsSunMeditationCenturyColorPlanetsInspirational LifeGratitudeHundredWake UpSpendingNobleDecadesGet UpBotherEnlightenedInsightfulSparklingInspirational ChristmasSumptuousSense PerceptionUnderstanding The Universe Author:Richard Dawkins
“The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.” BelieveTwoFilmNightRoomsHabitTasteHundredAccountsIncludingBonesSpendingAwfulMonkeysMonumentLiving RoomLeading MeDvdsCinematicImpulsiveFixation Author:Jen Lancaster
“What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?” IfsWarCareNationsMillionsCostThousandHundredGainsSpendingDiamondSteelGunpowderCost Of WarCocoa Author:W. E. B. Du Bois