#pensive

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive. ↗

— Brian Baird

#bill #cap #complicated #enormously #every

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#alive #everyone #expensive #i #lawyers

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ↗

— John Sladek

#exactly #expensive #far #future #like

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#fail #international #life #national life #noted

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#expensive #foreign #hard #husband #like

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#become #burden #difference #elected #expensive

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#also #could #expensive #i #if i could

Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#companies #costs #down #drive #everybody

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up. ↗

— James Harden

#get #gets #going #guys #i

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#about #ever #expensive #finding #happened