Discretionary Spending Quotes

#1. The point is that this is not only for the rich; it is for those who prioritize healthy, naturally raised food over other discretionary spending.

Tim Young

#2. Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

John Spratt

#3. We had a strong back-to-school season and discretionary spending on low-priced items has trended higher. These are good indications for Halloween, which typically sets the tone for the rest of the holiday shopping season.

Richard Hastings

#4. It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

Craig L. Thomas

#5. Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

Brian Baird

#6. Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

Robert M. Gates

#7. What happens is when you start to believe it in here your brain starts to believe it out here in our physical world so you have to understand it is a reverse of what we have been taught. "When I see it I will believe it".

John Assaraf

#8. Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.

Nguyen Van Thieu

#9. Value them; they are pearls of great price

Kristin Cast

#10. The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. Drugs
to me
have always been
a pretty girl
with a sly smile
beckoning me
with a finger
down the dark path
of a fork in the road.

Atticus Poetry

#12. The bear was snarling as usual. Watching Raven breathe, it really was like the bear was breathing, too.

C.L.Stone

#13. All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.

Fran Lebowitz

#14. And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it.

Lewis Carroll

#15. Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

Daniel H. Pink

#16. And Nick was sure Christianna's family was upset

Danielle Steel

#17. And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.

David Price