I'm still trying to get my head around how spending $3 billion more constitutes cuts.
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I'm still trying to get my head around how spending $3 billion more constitutes cuts.
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD MERKT It is downright dishonest to tell taxpayers that there will be deep, painful and meaningful cuts in ...
TOM WILSON If ethanol is so great, why are we spending $3 billion in subsidizing it?
DAVID PIMENTEL I don't know how many more casualties we're going to take. We're spending a billion dollars a week n...
CHUCK HAGEL The reality is that this has become a game. It's done because pollsters say it's highly effective to...
ASSEMBLYMAN MERKT You can't spend money you don't have, and yet that's exactly what we're doing repeatedly this aftern...
ASSEMBLYMAN MERKT In my votes you can read my advocacy of fiscal restraint and responsibility.
ASSEMBLYMAN MERKT Even though there's a lot of angst over the budget, a cut of $56 billion over five years, or $40 bil...
GREG VALLIERE I'm trying to get my message out without spending a lot of money.
DAVE LEWIS We're spending $6 billion to $7 billion a month in Iraq -- that's not efficient spending of defense ...
FRANK LANZA In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also ...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spe...
PAUL RYAN When you break down the barriers between communications, every IM user is able to send and receive m...
DAVID CARD This last comment is crucial, especially when the U.S. Congress last night rejected restrictions on ...
ASHRAF LAIDI There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
CAITLIN MORAN A billion dollars may sound like a lot of money, but compare it to the $1 trillion spent globally on...
ERIC NEWTON I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending...
STEPHEN HARPER The children's market is probably a $3 billion to $5 billion market at my best guess, (and) growing ...
ANDREW SHORE That's what we've heard - well over $2 billion, maybe closer to $3 billion.
DENNIS YOUNG My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure mo...
JACK MA We're trying to build a solid, sound base on which to grow long term, ... Our goal is a billion-doll...
GREG GIBSON We're trying to build a solid, sound base on which to grow long term. Our goal is a billion-dollar i...
GREG GIBSON $3 billion is a big number but, to be honest, I would expect them to have issued $4 billion. (An iss...
GAUTAM JAIN Now is not the time to further tax cuts for millionaires which would cost $32 billion a year or more...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN I'm all in favor of the tax cuts, but I think that the administration has to eat their spinach along...
CHRIS EDWARDS Paul is a working class lad from Yorkshire. He doesn't really know how to be laird. He doesn't reall...
LLOYD OWEN Im still runnin against the wind
Well Im older now and still
Against the wind
BOB SEGER We have resources to do $200 billion in contracts, but we are spending $400 billion in contracts.
JOSHUA SCHWARTZ Despite spending more than $6.5 billion since 2001, these grants have not been able to demonstrate a...
ALEX CONANT im still waiting
for that kiss when
my leg
[(P o p s)]*
MEGAN Microsoft would think twice about spending more than $20 billion. The probability of a deal happenin...
BRENDAN BARNICLE Any money we get will prevent cuts. There's no add. We're just trying to hold on after coming off of...
BRENDA MYERS Mom and sister played piano growing up; my grandma still plays piano in church. They always beat me ...
DUSTIN LYNCH He wants an additional $18 billion that is not in the budget. And my question to him is, this is spe...
KENT CONRAD My teammates are always very supportive of me. My teammates were trying to get me the ball so that I...
ELENA DELLEDONNE It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its e...
LAURA HILLENBRAND There isn't as much disagreement as everyone thinks.
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD MERKT The reality is that this has become a game. It's done because pollsters say it's highly effective to...
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD MERKT You can't spend money you don't have, and yet that's exactly what we're doing repeatedly this aftern...
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD MERKT In my votes you can read my advocacy of fiscal restraint and responsibility.
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD MERKT I think that's the key part here is these are not cuts we like to make. The issue is cost and how mu...
BEVERLY CLARK Im still betting on you. - Cinna.
SUZANNE COLLINS The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spendin...
JOHN FLEMING If it's a Category 3 or up, I'm out of here. I'll just fill up my car and head north. There's really...
DAVID MAHONEY You're all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. You'll never crack t...
BRENT RUNYON The price dropped from $5.80 to $2.30 at one stage. Even now it is languishing around $3, so the sha...
JOHN CURRY America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to wo...
GREG ABBOTT Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.
ROSS LYNCH We are opportunistic. We have a very significant war chest. Our net debt is around $3 billion. It's ...
ANDREI GAIDAMAKA I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG The governor appreciates Speaker Roberts' leadership and his efforts to identify potential spending ...
ANTHONY COLEY I was trying to get in her head early.
CANDICE DRAKEFORD We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable w...
MATT ANDERSON A projection forward, with expenditure remaining at budgeted levels, could well result in a revenue ...
IAN DAVIDSON The kid I played against was a complete head case. He was questioning all my calls, trying to get in...
BARRETT WOLF In life there are no short cuts; process is still the best way to get ahead.
BIDEMI MARK-MORDI It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His bo...
HENRY ROLLINS Clarence Norman is not involved in my campaign, ... the assemblyman is a private citizen. He can cho...
JOHN SAMPSON Consumers are still spending money, it's just that they have are not trying to buy every vehicle on ...
JOEL NAROFF Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven bill...
SAMANTHA BEE Our figures show that nearly four million people went angling last year leading to 20,000 jobs and t...
DAFYDD EVANS Our figures show that nearly four million people went angling last year leading to 20,000 jobs and t...
DAFYDD EVANS I'm still making my cuts. The injuries made me stronger and more patient. I feel like I might be a b...
FRANK GORE Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' whic...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, word...
RACHEL KLEIN I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting...
GARY LARSON They did a good job of trying to get into my head. I think they accomplished that in the second peri...
ROBBIE EARL The fact that the President is calling for still more tax cuts at the same time the Congress is bein...
PAUL SARBANES We tend to favor, as a board, more across-the-board tax cuts and not trying to pick winners and lose...
FARRELL QUINLAN (Homer:) Check it out, Erin shaved my head.
(Marge:) You are bald!
(Homer:) Noooo.. Im young person ...
HOMER SIMPSON I don’t make to-do lists, but if I did, today’s would have gone something like this: 1. get drun...
PAULA STOKES I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a ...
DAMIEN HIRST Every day, foreigners need to acquire more than $2 billion in U.S. dollar denominated assets -- soon...
AXEL MERK Because sure enough, the more you try to eradicate those limiting thoughts from bouncing around in y...
STEPHEN RICHARDS We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the F...
ALAN KEYES I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to c...
A. J. MCLEAN Curiously, Vodafone has chosen to issue £3 billion of shares, or 1.45 billion shares or 2.2 percent...
FANOS HIRA Sometimes I will be hearing an orchestra in my head and I'm trying to get that sound to come out on ...
BILL FRISELL The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the pro...
ZACK SNYDER You can only imagine that they could end up spending an incremental billion to billion and a half [d...
BRENDAN BARNICLE This is a very strange appropriations year. We are dealing with a surplus and budget cuts. The quest...
DAVID HAMILTON Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar...
JASON NAPODANO Even when i didn't get credits for my efforts, i still kept my head up and prayed for better days..
OLASOT I'm just trying to come out every day and help the team, score some runs and do my job as the No. 3 ...
CYLE HANKERD My soap operas have been seen by a billion people all around the world.
THALIA Im not going to change my ways,
just to please you or appease you,
inside a crowd five b...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND What's somewhat surprising is that you hear people talking about holding off on spending cuts,
MAYA MACGUINEAS It's really death by 1,000 cuts. It's just stunning hearing the stories of people trying to get ahea...
MATT FELLOWES Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Som...
LIU XIAOMING We think there are no magic puddings ... any new spending and tax cuts will need to be paid for by c...
DANIELLE WESTWATER Paper cuts on my fingertips are nothing compared to the cuts on my heart that were left the day you ...
MARLENE M. CHAVEZ It was very tough, it really showed how much we've been trying to get in shape because we had to run...
COURTNEY JONES All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, t...
ALAN KEYES You can turn off the sun, but im still ganna shine!
JASON MRAZ I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, goo...
HARRY STYLES According to my very rough calculation, that's considerably more than $54 billion.
BARRY DRAGON We still have a few more cuts to make before next weekend and that is going to be hard. If you get t...
ALAN WILLIAMS My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER We're trying to get as much experience as possible. A lot of teams have played 15 or 16 games alread...
DENISE AINSWORTH
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The reality is that this has become a game. It's done because pollsters say it's highly effective to...
ASSEMBLYMAN MERKT You can't spend money you don't have, and yet that's exactly what we're doing repeatedly this aftern...
ASSEMBLYMAN MERKT In my votes you can read my advocacy of fiscal restraint and responsibility.
ASSEMBLYMAN MERKT There isn't as much disagreement as everyone thinks.
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD MERKT The reality is that this has become a game. It's done because pollsters say it's highly effective to...
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD MERKT I'm still trying to get my head around how spending $3 billion more constitutes cuts.
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ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD MERKT In my votes you can read my advocacy of fiscal restraint and responsibility.
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ASSEMBLYMAN SIBLEY He has a pattern of filing phony complaints against me.
ASSEMBLYMAN SIBLEY I'd probably do the same thing.
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ASSEMBLYMAN GREGG This administration continues to be fiscally and morally bankrupt.
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ASSEMBLYMAN GREENWALD We are not counting as this committee that we're going to get a windfall of money. What we don't wan...
ASSEMBLYMAN GREENWALD We are committed to funding the Governor's School.
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ASSEMBLYMAN GREENWALD The process doesn't end (today), it begins.
ASSEMBLYMAN GREENWALD However strong our revenue picture, we cannot for one minute drop our guard as it relates to combing...
ASSEMBLYMAN GREENWALD The preservation of the rebate program should always be a priority until there is a stable form of p...
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ASSEMBLYMAN GOTTFRIED That means more clinics are dividing the same pot of money. So there's less money for each clinic ev...
ASSEMBLYMAN GOTTFRIED So those we're punishing would be the poorest and least able to pay for prescription drugs.
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ASSEMBLYMAN GOTTFRIED New York didn't create this mess, but we have the power to help people survive it.
ASSEMBLYMAN GOTTFRIED But there is no place for people to cross the street.
ASSEMBLYMAN RYAN KARBEN The regulations would establish different levels of cleanup depending on how the area will be used i...
ASSEMBLYMAN RYAN KARBEN The idea is to return these sites to the status they were before they were polluted. That's what a c...
ASSEMBLYMAN RYAN KARBEN I think that the Koval case demonstrates we cannot rely on sex offenders for honest information abou...
ASSEMBLYMAN RYAN KARBEN There aren't enough tools at the disposal of law enforcement to keep our communities as safe as they...
ASSEMBLYMAN RYAN KARBEN That means the state's poorest seniors will have to pick up the tab for $216 million in prescription...
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD GOTTFRIED That means more clinics are dividing the same pot of money. So there's less money for each clinic ev...
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD GOTTFRIED New York didn't create this mess, but we have the power to help people survive it.
ASSEMBLYMAN RICHARD GOTTFRIED Everyone at some point is going to have a prescription that their Part D plan doesn't cover _ unless...
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ASSEMBLYMAN MICHAEL GIANARIS He wasn't talking to us. Maybe he was hoping someone was watching on C-SPAN.
ASSEMBLYMAN MICHAEL GIANARIS It's like the Wild West out there. No one is watching.
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ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD It's not being driven by public policy.
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ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD The hospital industry is important to me because this is the second-largest industry in the state. (...
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD We are not counting as this committee that we're going to get a windfall of money. What we don't wan...
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD We are committed to funding the Governor's School.
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD That half-a-billion dollars didn't benefit one child in this state. He has got to show us a business...
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD The process doesn't end (today), it begins.
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD However strong our revenue picture, we cannot for one minute drop our guard as it relates to combing...
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD The preservation of the rebate program should always be a priority until there is a stable form of p...
ASSEMBLYMAN LOUIS GREENWALD This is just a redistribution of costs. The economic problems of this state are not driven by pickin...
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ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG People thought, because of his financial status, he'd be more independent than any run-of-the-mill D...
ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG We've created a horrible playing field for the people of Atlantic City.
ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG Once the casino exemption was put in and supported by about everybody, it was still a bill about whe...
ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG He's not afraid to think out loud, and I think that's something politicians never do.
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ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG If this is the future of modern medicine, there will be a waiting line of private entities to get in...
ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG This administration continues to be fiscally and morally bankrupt.
ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG If this happened in one of my school districts, (the residents) would have to bear the burden. I can...
ASSEMBLYMAN FRANCIS BODINE This practice is not only immoral. It posed a potential health risk to those who may be recipients o...
ASSEMBLYMAN FRANCIS BODINE This story is troubling not just for the families of the deceased who are now finding out that these...
ASSEMBLYMAN FRANCIS BODINE The Public Safety Committee of the California Assembly is soft on crime.
ASSEMBLYMAN DENNIS MOUNTJOY The fact is that Democrats in this house are soft on crime.
ASSEMBLYMAN DENNIS MOUNTJOY You pass industrial hemp today and then something else and then something else. And then at some poi...
ASSEMBLYMAN DENNIS MOUNTJOY We'd be ringing the bell, saying come to New Jersey: We'll give you driver's licenses. It's going to...
ASSEMBLYMAN CHRISTOPHER CONNORS People who come here without regard to the law, we can only expect they're not going to abide by all...
ASSEMBLYMAN CHRISTOPHER CONNORS Our state's citizens ought not to be in competition for seats in our colleges and universities with ...
ASSEMBLYMAN CHRISTOPHER CONNORS This is a step toward clearing my name.
ASSEMBLYMAN SCOTT SIBLEY He has a pattern of filing phony complaints against me.
ASSEMBLYMAN SCOTT SIBLEY I'd probably do the same thing.
ASSEMBLYMAN SCOTT SIBLEY He left the business to myself. It was not really a family thing.
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ASSEMBLYMAN GUY GREGG It was appalling to me, when these players are supposed to be role models. It occurred to me that th...
ASSEMBLYMAN JAY LA SUER The governor has been involved in sports most of his life, and I fully expect he will sign it.
ASSEMBLYMAN JAY LA SUER I say you are betraying the people of California. You are not leading. You have gone astray.
ASSEMBLYMAN JAY LA SUER History will record that you betrayed your constituents and their moral and ethical values. . . . ...
ASSEMBLYMAN JAY LA SUER Public Safety, to me, should be a committee that works to the betterment of California, and I see it...
ASSEMBLYMAN JAY LA SUER