#pay

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#effects #get #i #i think #movies

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#because #buy #cost #heart #her

We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with fewer workers. I'm convinced we can do it and we don't have a choice. ↗

— Kevin Brady

#better #choice #constituents #convinced #fewer

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#believe #big #big challenge #challenge #frankly

I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying 20 percent of my health insurance. ↗

— Terry Branstad

#example #future #going #health #health insurance

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#bills #certain #fiscally #frankly #future

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#bloom #cleaning #could #county #draw