“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
“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?” PeopleIfsShouldYearsEnoughKidsSchoolJobsCompanyFiveTeachingThousandHundredDollarsBe GoodThirtyFortyGood Enough Author:Steve Jobs
“Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.” PeopleShouldRememberCausesTermSubjectsHundredPrisonAccidentsCommitExpensesTrafficParticipantsParadesInconvenienceNuisanceMisdemeanors Book:The Illiterate Digest Source: The Illiterate Digest
“It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.” PeopleIfsShouldGovernmentPurposeMillionsThousandHundredFunctionEmploymentAppropriateFortyEmployed Author:James A. Garfield