#surplus

As a matter of fact, if you do not take into account, as Congressman Ross just stated, the Social Security surplus, our fiscal deficit, ladies and gentlemen, is over $700 billion today. ↗

— Jim Costa

#billion #congressman #deficit #fact #fiscal

Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#brussels #budget #contributions #debate #deficit

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

#available #cheap #colonies #dumping #easily

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#economic #freedom #surplus

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#cohesive #combined #consisting #government #greater

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gifted #leaves #person #point #rest

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#achieve #budget #clinton #despite #divided

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ↗

— Orville Wright

#command #considered #could #estimate #first

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future? ↗

— David R. Gergen

#heaven #how #much #name #nation

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#always #bipartisan #came #controlled #deficit