“My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.” KnowsFirstsJobsHouseMy OwnPayKnow HowCostMembersConceptsCourtClubsTennisGradesMilkEmbarrassingClaySweepingYachtSixth GradeBmwTennis Courts Author:Chloe Sevigny
“Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.” KnowsValuesPayWatchesWorryStruggleShareStudentsMembersMy FriendsCrisisMedicalBarackBelovedTreatmentLoanMortgageFamily MembersStudent LoanBeloved Family Author:Ted Strickland
“Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.” GivingPaySacrificeExampleMembersGiving UpIncreaseCharityCongressGood Examples Author:Tom Coburn
“As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.” MadeProblemTogetherIndividualPayQualityPracticeTeamSeriousMembersDoctorsPatientWorking TogetherQuantityEconomistTeam Working Author:Atul Gawande
“I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation.” WorldMayMeanDoeRealityEarthJobsFacesSufferingNationsCommunityPayEconomyEnvironmentFateGenerationsDangerHigherMembersAccountsProfoundClimateClimate ChangeHeavyProducersConsumersGlobal WarmingInvestorsOur EnvironmentDinosaursNew GenerationTollsBetter JobsAdjusting Author:Eileen Claussen
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.” IfsShouldStatesGovernmentTurnsPayHonestTaxesMembersStandardsPaidWorkersIncomeVotingBureaucracyTaxpayersAccountingUnorthodoxGovernment Workers Author:Ilana Mercer
“To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.” IfsGivingRunningRomanceOrderHouseSimplePayLike YouMembersCleanGymCrapJerkKeep It Simple Author:Joe Gold
“Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.” KnowsOrderDealsPayMillionsStruggleMembersCongressMortgageSweetheart Author:Jeb Hensarling
“Some members of Congress now are complaining they are underpaid. They want to propose a pay raise. You can't blame them. A lot of them took a big income hit when Enron folded.” WantBigsPayMembersRaisesBlameCongressComplainingIncomeProposeEnronUnderpaid Author:Jay Leno
“President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., a modern prophet, said over and over again that the Lord would never let one of his Saints who had been faithful in the payment of tithes and offerings go without the necessities of life” (Marion G. Romney, “The Blessings of an Honest Tithe,” New Era, Jan.-Feb. 1982, 45). Members who faithfully pay tithing are promised spiritual blessings as well. “I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith” ThinkingWellsLittlesSaidSpiritualPresidentChurchPayKnownLordModernHonestBlessingMembersSaintErasFaithfulProphetOfferingWell KnownPaymentRomneyNew EraTitheTithingSpiritual BlessingsNot Well Known Author:A. Theodore Tuttle
“It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.” IfsThinkingGovernmentFacesLawNextTermPayDemocracyWeekArmsTypeMembersSixElectionCongressPopulationDebateRussiaGermanyAutumnSenateDictatorshipUnfortunateDelaySessionDemocracies HaveEmbargo Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.” PeopleChildrenDoeThreePresidentPartyPayAttentionWifeExpressionMonthsMembersCriticismElectionMy WifeMy ChildrenTabooFreedom Of ExpressionThree Months Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“For years President Obama has been saying that no one would lose their healthcare plan. Now the White House has admitted that in fact many people will lose their plans. But there is a way to keep the great coverage you have. Just become a member of Congress. Then the taxpayers pay for the whole thing.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensWholeFactsHousePresidentLosesWhitePayPlansMembersCongressWhite HousePresident ObamaHealthcareTaxpayersCoverage Author:Jay Leno
“The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.” MenFirstsHousePrayerViewsPayPracticeWeekHe ManMembersPaidCongressOpeningAcceptableAmendmentsSessionViolationFirst AmendmentInterruptionsClausesChaplains Author:Warren E. Burger
“Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It is only a handful of mega-rich, those whose entire incomes are derived from dividends and capital gains, rather than salaries or business profits, who have the ability to pay lower tax rates than some members of the middle class. The left knows this but continues to build their 'freeloading millionaire' straw man because it makes good politics.” KnowsMenLeftAbilityPayClassRichShareMiddleTaxesMembersGainsFairsRateProfitContraryIncomeMiddle ClassRhetoricHandfulSalaryMillionaireStrawsDividendsFair ShareMegaCapital Gains Author:Peter Schiff
“Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.” ShouldHomeCommunityPayCitizensTaxesMembersPreacherDwellingResidence Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
“It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.” ShouldBelieveChurchPayFictionCostMembersFairsPropertyIncludingVariousDoctrineAbsurdPropagandaTaxationItemsSuperstitiousChurch Members Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
“My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.” FirstsMadeRememberChurchPayMonthsMembersUnionsSevenChecks Author:T. D. Jakes
“Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted.” ReasonBigsPayHalfCuttingMembersDeserveRaisesCongressCorporationsReason WhyBribeWhy MeBig Corporations Author:David Letterman
“The president doesn't get an automatic pay raise, so they can't freeze it for him. But it also does extend the pay rate - they pay increases or pay freeze for pay increases for members of Congress. They've had a pay freeze since 2009, but most civil servants will see a small pay bump in 2016 thanks to a separate order from President Obama.” DoeOrderPresidentPayMembersIncreaseRaisesRateCongressThanksServantPresident ObamaFreezeBumpsCivil Servants Author:Susan Davis
“I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.” ShouldBelieveStatesNationsUnitedPayMembersDuesObligationUnited Nations Author:Alex J. Morrison
“An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.” GivingMindPoliticalPoliticsPaySacrificeMembersOriginalsCharacteristicsLabourParliamentInfluentialMembers Of Parliament Book:The collected works of Walter Bagehot Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot
“The NRA is weakening but the opposing forces are stronger. A member of Congress has and still does pay a price for voting against the NRA. But now a member pays a price for voting with the NRA, too. In many districts, the price is higher when a member votes with the NRA than against the NRA. The public is outraged.” DoeStillsForcePayHigherMembersVoteStrongerCongressVotingOpposingOutragedWeakeningNra Author:Charles Schumer
“I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations that protect the rights and privileges and pay of their members. The problem is that we don't have an organized national interest group with the same heft as the teachers union that's advocating on behalf of children.” BelieveChildrenProblemI BelieveInterestPayTeacherRightsGroupsProtectMembersOrganizationUnionsPrivilegeSupposed To BeOrganizedBehalfAdvocatingNational InterestsInterest GroupsRights And PrivilegesTeachers Unions Author:Michelle Rhee
“All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities ... the list goes on!” IfsHelpingShowsChancePayResponsibilityConditionsGoes OnEqualMembersTrainingEvidenceSafetyTradeUnionsCaringListsGet BetterEqual PayTrade UnionsHealth And Safety Author:Frances O'Grady