We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.
I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.
The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.
They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done.
If you are thinking about, talking about, and spending energy on what is missing in your life, what is wrong, what you don't like, or what always has been, then you are going to continue to attract those things into your life. We become what we think about.
Our racing simulator is more about gathering data about the car, trying different setups, and trying to find speed in the actual racecar as opposed to speed in the actual driver. There's no other way to get that kind of testing in, without doing the actual event, or getting outside and spending the money to make it happen. And it costs a lot to go to the racetrack.
Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.
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.
One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
We need to stop spending money we don't have.
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says, 'We don't have enough money for this space probe. ' No, it's not that you don't have enough money. It's that the distribution of money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.
After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.