'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.
Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.
As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending money on other things that we could have spent the money on.
Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.
I think it is important for everybody to bring their spending habits into line with their ideals.
If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?
I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.
My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen. . .
There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.
I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.
I'm very aware of my spending, but I'm not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I'll be like 'oh' but it's not really a frontrunner in my head.
We now know that inflation results from all that deficit spending.
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.
In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.
I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much.
As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.