#increases

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#been #ceiling #changes #debt #debt ceiling

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#balanced #bipartisan #commission #controls #debt

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#creative #ego #expands #faculties #increases

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio. ↗

— Jonathan Potter

#business #even #i #i think #increases

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#absence #candles #diminishes #extinguishes #fans

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ↗

— Saadi

#enemy #enmity #excepting #friend #increases

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#because #capacity #every #girl #her

We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers. ↗

— John Spratt

#bit #defense #enlisted #good #huge

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#increases #itself #name #thing

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#cut #cutting #getting #here #increases