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Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs

We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#best #business #businesses #california #chief

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#behind #bigots #fools #front #go

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#die #different #luckier #supposed

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

#difference #how #use

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#business #congressional #effort #first #items

People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#dramatic #i #people #stuff #surprised

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that. ↗

— Jordyn Wieber

#different #different color #experimenting #i #like

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beings #encourages #endure #helps #human

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#difference #journalism #literature #read #unreadable