#spending

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#books #efficient #even #forces #go

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#brightly #cheer #coloured #diet #discarded

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#friends #going #going home #grounded #home

Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year. ↗

— Mark Foley

#reached #spending #travel #trillion #year

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#family #friends #i #i love #i think

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#end #end result #get #give #kind

If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home. ↗

— James Levine

#day #doing #factor #fathers #home

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#any #debt #debt limit #involve #levels

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that? ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#cuts #democrats #fund #new #non-existent

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#believe #both #create #cut #decisions