#cian

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers. ↗

— Ron Paul

#deficit #deficit spending #deficits #exposed #future

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. ↗

— Ron Paul

#i #i think #maybe #moon #politicians

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#asked #bear #how #interest #just

Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#paper #politician #promise #worth #written

I feel really different from other musicians. ↗

— Mary Timony

#feel #i #i feel #musicians #other

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#first #great #i #keller #know

I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#arms #called #country #david #founder

A lawyer, a politician, and a prostitute walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve your kind here.” And I’d have to agree. Serves them right for being so sleazy. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #lawyer #politician #prostitute #sleazy

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. ↗

— Oscar Peterson

#every night #like #musicians #night #perform

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction. ↗

— David Petraeus

#am #conviction #i #i am #never