Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
When my husband was president, we went from a $300 billion deficit to a $200 billion surplus and we were actually on… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffett can use his surplus funds… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image