#account

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #budgets #genuinely

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#beginning #completely #democratic #fact #form

Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#feel #government #held #impact #just

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run. ↗

— John Sununu

#accounts #children #create #get #higher

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#british #british government #cost #country #curiously

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#account #activity #behaviour #different #different kinds

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#issues #previously #problem #reserve #trading

When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#bad-behavior #bullying #energy-healing #enlightenment #god