World military spending has now risen to over $1. 2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2. 5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.
If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it. Some people, like some of the women I know, have a black belt in spending. They were born with that. But what they gave me was a black belt in chutzpah.
Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.
God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of spending time with Jesus - it is not a reflection of yourself
Our contention is not that medication alone is the answer. We really need to have it in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy and with peer support. And that needs to be reimbursed [by health insurers], because it shows huge reductions in overall spending.
I've brought the traditions from Spain to the United States: spending the afternoons with my husband and my son, enjoying the little things.
That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.
More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.
Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending.
Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.
It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.
(J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.