#surplus

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#balanced #budgets #cuts #deferred #easy

The American people expect more from Congress. They expect fiscal responsibility and common sense. They expect us to return to the pay-as-you-go budget rules that we had enacted in the past that helped us establish a surplus, however briefly. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#american people #briefly #budget #common #common sense

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power. ↗

— Gray Davis

#counting #down #end #flawed #getting

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#been #comparatively #countries #crowded #east

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#catch #deity #designed #dog #kind

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#rather #shortage #surplus #versus #you

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

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets. ↗

— Andrew Natsios

#cannot #cost #costs #die #eat

Before he'd met Anna, he'd thought he'd known what love was, thought he'd understood about friendship, romance, all o fit, but he hadn't - not at all. Until he'd held Anna in his arms, until he'd let her see his soul, until he'd heard her cry gently when he made love to her for the first time, he'd known nothing. ↗

— Gemma Malley

#knowledge #love #peter-pincent #resistance #surplus-anna

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#capitalist #does #fact #full #general