#reduce

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#billion #citizens #debt #designate #did

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #life #mere #more #our

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#change #complaining #complaints #never #reduce

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence. ↗

— Peter Gay

#about #accomplishment #aggression #also #child

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#am #blank #blank slate #creative #god

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem. ↗

— John Walters

#country #helping #president #president bush #problem

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#been #brought #close #conduct #ever

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#common-sense #direction #energy #energy security #future

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#apparently #doing #earmarks #eliminating #excited