#spending

If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#carbon #cent #committed #cost #country

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

Well, I'm going to try to make a real difference in Washington's spending patterns. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#going #i #make #patterns #real

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#dollars #federal #federal spending #genius #hundreds

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. ↗

— Joan Jett

#being #being happy #concentrating #happy #having

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#after #aircraft #applied #carrier #first

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

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#balancing #budget #cutting #education #i

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#away #borrowing #both #card #credit