#expense

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#expenses #iraq #iraqi #iraqi people #military

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#assume #derive #economic #expense #fixed

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#case #either #expense #idealism #in other words

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#dreams #expense #fears #insecure #more

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#bow #conscience #even #expected #expense

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#cut #expenses #face #first #government

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#example #expense #known #ourselves #prior

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterer #him #listens #lives

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents. ↗

— Linda Vester

#chasing #die #down #dream #expense

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #burdened #charge #debts #discharge