America Quote by Matt Taibbi Download Open image “America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.” — Matt Taibbi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Budgets National Two
Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Government budgets are no different than our own at home. We must operate within our means, make fiscally responsible decisions, and invest wisely to… — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so. — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
If the budget that you're talking about isn't a good one, then it's better not to pass a budget. Most people in the country… — Maya MacGuineas Copy Share Image
States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget. — John Kitzhaber Copy Share Image
The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does. — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image