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“If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.”

Ifs Years Looks Government Numbers Study One Thing Office Blow Spending Holes Budgets Coming Out Healthcare Deficit Government Spending Budget Deficit

Author:Christina Romer

“Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.”

Government Cutting Spending Reform Smarter Entitlement Entitlement Programs

Author:Mitt Romney

“I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.”

“Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.”

Knows Years Kind Plans Economic Taxes Percent Consequence Including Debt Spending Boost National Debt Federal Spending

Author:Karl Rove

“I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.”

Philosophy Guy Actors Hours Loses Simple Pleasure Seeing Couple Messages Profound Spending Movie Live By Bad Guys Wayne Simple Pleasures

Book:One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

Source: One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

“We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.”

Needs Government Taxes Spending Online Transparency Expenditures Government Spending

Author:Marco Rubio

“I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.”

People World Needs Believe Hard Shows Able Order I Believe Pay Serious Limits Vote Raises Bills Prepared Debt Spending Down The Road Hard Things

Author:Marco Rubio

“The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.”

Way Ideas Helping Government Class Middle Taxes Spending Best Way Middle Class Taxpayers Hardworking Government Spending Old Ideas

Author:Marco Rubio

“Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.”

Giving Persons Choices Responsibility Responsible Oneself Spending Saving Taking Responsibility

Author:Paul Ryan

“Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.”

Way Prosperity Spending Borrowing

Author:Paul Ryan

“If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.”

Ifs Would Be Jobs Spending Employment Borrowing

Author:Paul Ryan

“Hiding spending does not reduce spending.”

Doe Spending Hiding

Author:Paul Ryan

“Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'”

Government Law President Office Percent Increase Investment Spending Agency President Obama Stimulus Government Spending New Government Government Agencies

Author:Paul Ryan

“That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.”

Real Jobs Secret Creation Spending More Money Borrowing Job Creation

Author:Paul Ryan

“In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.”

Years Hard Enough Government Choices Growth President Break Economic Limits Percent Clean Size Spending Economic Growth Gdp Size Of Government Federal Spending

Author:Paul Ryan

“Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.”

Looks Kind Mean Talking Too Much Cutting Right Now Spending Billions Worried Budgets Spending Cuts

Author:Paul Ryan

“The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.”

Doe Stills Grows Economy Debt Spending Billions Administration Deficit

Author:Paul Ryan

“I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.”

Giving Hate Giving Up I Hate Court Spending Tournaments Spending Time

Author:Marat Safin

“I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.”

People Knows Wells Art Sometimes White Rooms Millions Dollars Crowds Ugly Spending Auctions Gaudy Preview

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush.”

America Saws Painting Wings Spending Decades Reactions Spokes Chemicals Like Something Physiological Chemical Reactions Gremlins

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.”

Helping Government Jobs Spending Cures Unemployment Bankruptcy Government Spending Foreclosure

Author:Brian Sandoval

“I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.”

Whole Wish Childhood Spending Adulthood

Author:Ricky Schroder

“The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.”

Matter Serious Consequence Concern Plant Spending Administration Fallen Senate Committees Severe Funding Chairman Capitol Domes Omitting

Author:Charles Schumer

“Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.”

Thinking Wells Spending California More Money

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.”

Clear One Thing Heard Please Spending Budgets Loud Traveled Reins Spending Money

Author:Tim Scott

“In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?”

Doe Weapons Dollars Spending Nuclear Als Afghanistan Nuclear Weapons Pakistan Strategic Al Qaeda

Author:Joe Biden

“Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.”

Winning Easy Extremes Spending Saving Moderates Gait

Author:Robert W. Service

“I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.”

Needs Mean Stills Pay Five Ocean Dollars Spending Beach Good Times Going Out Having A Good Time Beach And Ocean Beach Ocean Cool Beach Going To The Beach

Author:Maria Sharapova

“While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.”

Home Enjoy Spending Britain Spending Time

Author:Michael Sheen

“Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.”

Feels Sometimes Successful Spending Spending Time

Author:Simon Sinek

“Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.”

Share Military Spending Remarkable Privileged Spending Time

Author:Simon Sinek

“Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.”

Facts Feelings Strong Too Much Weak Focused Spending

Author:Simon Sinek

“Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.”

“The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Reality Interest Forget Economy Figures Gains Investment Rate Spending Productivity Consumers Inflation Interest Rate Retail Indicators Retail Sales

Author:Mark Skousen

“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.”

Thinking Want Firsts Political Individual Spending Absurd Limitation Amendments Contests First Amendment Spending Money

Author:Arlen Specter

“Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.”

Love Ends Wealth Love Is Rewards Spending Never Ending Love Is Life

Author:Herbert Spencer

“The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.”

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Author:Eliot Spitzer

“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.”

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Book:How to Listen to God

Source: How to Listen to God

“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.”

Needs Night Baby Mom Honor Grateful Privilege Spending Motherhood Teenager Awake Meals Preparing Nursing Time And Money Momma Awake At Night Just A Mom Inspiring Motherhood Servanthood

Author:Charles Stanley

“After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.”

Years New York Spending Ohio

Author:R. L. Stine

“Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.”

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Author:John Sununu

“Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.”

Needs Should Spending Billions Investors Motor Cyberspace General Motors

Author:James Surowiecki

“When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.”

Church Media Spending Budgets Twisted

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.”

Government Average Spending Tea Exception Sincerely Government Spending

Author:Matt Taibbi

“The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.”

Evil Party Debt Spending Arguing Deficit Deficit Spending

Author:Matt Taibbi

“We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.”

Life Inspirational Needs Giving Mind Spiritual Order Spirituality Opportunity Our Lives Quiet Spending Honestly Gardening Quietness Alone Time Quiet Time Quiet Life

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Ends Inspiration Waiting Sound Awareness Listening Mindfulness Hearing Spending Guides Genuine Strings Pulling Through The Eyes Listen To Yourself Genuineness

Author:Howard Thurman

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