During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand. — Mat Hoffman Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It was reported today that former Governor Howard Dean raised $14 million dollars in campaign funds mostly over the Internet. Of course,… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Hollywood still makes things. We still export a couple billion dollars' worth of product overseas. Original, new product. Some people might not… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake… — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
My taste in films doesn't lead financers to think they are going to make a zillion dollars. — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
