#spending

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. ↗

— Doug Elmendorf

#care #care costs #changes #contrary #costs

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money. ↗

— Michael Enzi

#how #money #paper #president #sends

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#championships #doing #i #i can #live

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#bush #bush tax cuts #cut #cuts #debt

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#definition #gym #i #life #me

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#ask #been #book #different #different world

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#across #arsenic #clean #clean up #clean water

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#democratic #democratic process #economy #enough #fast

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#choices #ever #extent #free #free person

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#borrowing #employment #full #jobs #led