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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.
Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.
Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.
I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.
How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?
I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
I don't seek the limelight. I'm perfectly happy with a quiet life and spending time with my family, but I deserve recognition.
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken's vote.
You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.
Spending time in different areas of a business and making time to understand how everyone fits together is incredibly beneficial.
That's the fun part of being CEO. You can actually say, 'Hey, this is what we should be spending our time on,' and people get it.
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.
Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
I remember spending one summer being utterly obsessed with trying to get the legendary unreachable 'Ice Key' from 'Banjo-Kazooie.'
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.
I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.
I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.
The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.
It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.
I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.
My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone to make you feel loved and appreciated.
Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.
My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.
Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.
Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.
For some people, staying grounded means doing yoga. For others, it's spending time with family. Social media, too, can be a lifesaver.
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.
The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.
I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance.
I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
There are as many Democrats that are guilty as Republicans and their spending habits. And the fact is, is that Washington is just broken.
The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.
Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it was good from a mental point of view.