#fits

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook. ↗

— George Osborne

#benefits #cope #disabilities #family #get

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#also #attempts #common #common sense #create

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#american jobs #american worker #benefits #i #jobs

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits. ↗

— Rand Paul

#make #medicare #more #pay #rich

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#convulsion #ever #ever after #fits #leave

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make. ↗

— David Pratt

#forget #lower #make #more #oil

The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#announcement #book #company #energy #energy plan

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#benefits #chooses #clearly #consequences #down

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits. ↗

— David Ricardo

#effect #general #money #price #produces

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#across #away #benefits #both #come