#the past

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past. ↗

— Peter Welch

#also #american #american family #average #average american

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating. ↗

— Jack White

#anything #copying #hate #hear #hope

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#in the past #mexico #new #new mexico #past

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#bag #basis #cassette #commit #constant

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past. ↗

— Bubba Watson

#go #good #i #in the past #just

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#defend #freedom #future #god #i

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#been #development #in the past #leader #led

And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers. ↗

— John Hutton

#broader #business #consumers #costs #easy

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#beat #believing #biggest #citizen #country

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself. ↗

— Shania Twain

#discouraging #doubted #had #i #in the past