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All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Woody Allen

We have our database set up to calculate the time a practitioner spends with patients in general. We've recently put in place a note/charting system by which we can calculate time, including the initial evaluation, casting, scanning, alignment, and fitting. We can pull that information in the future and, say, look at the time practitioners are spending on casting, or on evaluation.

Joseph Miller

She's a very cerebral swimmer. She spends an inordinate amount of time studying her competition. When she gets into the pool with swimmers she hasn't competed against before, that knowledge gives her an edge.

Robin Tobias

My mother in her 80s, has, like, 20 prescriptions, and she spends $4,000 a year. At various stages of retirement, you have various expenditures of needs.

Louise Piazza

Private industry spends billions of dollars on this targeting. The companies think it works. Why wouldn't it work for politicians?

Peter Swire

He spends 23 hours out of 24 in solitary confinement. Before he had 18 months, 24 hours every day, in solitary, and that's where he developed eye problems and got depressed.

Terry Hicks

Starbucks now spends more on health care than it does on coffee beans.

Will Marshall

While the president's focus is on defending America it seems New York's junior senator remains dedicated to her political aspirations. For someone that claims to be solely concerned with serving her constituents, Sen. Clinton spends an inordinate amount of time and energy attacking Republicans.

Camille Anderson

American industry spends a lot of time on cost accounting, and they do so because it gives them so much more control. But the health system rewards inefficiency. It's not a competitive system where the supplier names the price -- as a doctor, you can't determine the price, Medicare quotes it for you.... When the one saying it is as big a gorilla as Medicare, you say, 'I'll take it.'

Regina Herzlinger

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

For a challenger to be within the margin of error before he even spends a dime on advertising statewide is just fantastic news for us.

Mark Graul

He's done so much for the community, and spends so much time helping everybody. He always gave the extra effort, not just his job.

Ben Johnson (sheriff)

It's a win-win situation. She has a certain prestige with her friends that she has a job in the community. She's earning the money she spends in the community, and she doesn't have to rely on social security.

Larry Hellman

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Desmond Morris

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man who spends all his time with one hand on the Bible and his other hand thrust down the pants of an adolescent child. I don't want to hear it.

Anthony Beal

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

Roger Rosenblatt

Lake district is above average in terms of wealth, yet it spends 26 percent less per student than the state average.

Tim Krugh

That's a simplistic way of looking at it. When someone spends a lot of money at the game and thinks about their bill, there's a disconnect. What they don't think about are all the things we do to support the community.

Mark Stutz

Whether he's freed or spends time in jail, that he will give back to the community.

Tonya David

This is the setup for 1966, 1967, 1968. If Congress goes ahead and spends another $200 billion and doesn't pay for it, it's just what LBJ did.

Philip Verleger

In the rich cities, an Internet user who spends $1 actually gets more out of their experience and finds more Web sites in their language.

Philip Howard

When you think of the person who goes to Disneyland and spends $500 and puts it on the credit card and their interest rate is 15 percent (debt) ... the person that puts it in the credit union is getting 4 percent (gain). The difference is close to 20 percent.

Dan Casey

Despite the governor's ongoing concerns that the legislative budget spends too much and reforms too little, we look forward to productive discussion with the Legislature over the next two weeks and remain hopeful that we can negotiate an on-time budget ...

John Cape

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you really think that will help your kid, your kid benefits from it and you have the money, that is fine. Nobody can dictate how somebody spends his or her money.

Rick Wolff

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Joe Garagiola

The pornography industry spends more than $57 billion worldwide and sex outlets, like adult bookstores, outnumbering McDonald's restaurants on a scale of two-to-one in our society.

Michael Leahy

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

Owen D. Young

There is a donor, through the Apostle Islands Community Fund, that has pledged to provide up to $150,000 for capital improvements. It requires that the school district this year spends $50,000 to replace the sand filter.

Jack Beagan

North Dakota spends zero dollars on alcohol prevention. The money comes from the federal government and is funneled through various state agencies. Those federal dollars are increasingly in short supply.

Lee Erickson

We're getting lots of good information and are still putting things together, but our investigator spends half the day picking up dead bodies.

Tanya Hilgendorf

Way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don't need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.

Jessica Alba

Sen. Hatch probably spends that much in a week. I am very effective at managing money.

Peter Ashdown

She had the chance to protect Kelsey. Kelsey could still be alive if she had done her job as a parent, and she did not do it. Yes, I do hope she spends time in jail.

Kathie Briggs

The more a punter spends the better value they are getting.

Shannon Bennett

We argue he's a local guy in the community who does more than sit around and engage in illegal activity, but spends time being with his family and his wife.

Stephan Seeger

Citizens have a right to know. We have a right to know how government spends our money. More importantly, we have a right to know how government arrives at decisions that affect all of us.

Darrell Opfer

A verdict of guilty means that Mr. Wilson spends the rest of his life in prison. He dies there.

Louis Jordan

I have been to several of the dinners, and it is absolutely wonderful what Hal has been doing at significant effort and personal expense (every dollar he spends on our veterans could be money he puts in his pocket). You really have to be at one of these dinners to fully appreciate what this means to these soldiers.

Jim Mcdaniel

The Florida Republican Party spends its money on campaigns and getting new local candidates elected, ... We don't lobby the Legislature.

Camille Anderson

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Robert J. Mccracken

The company spends way too much money and generates too little in return. There is not a growth catalyst now for the stock. I think they can and should cut more.

Jon Fisher

Big Tobacco spends million of dollars to get people hooked. 1,200 people die every day from tobacco-related illnesses. For every 1,200 they lose, they need to look for 1,200 more.

Sebrina Brown

See how much time the agency (spends getting) to know you and your vacation plans. See if they ask about your travel history or what you expect. The more they try to get to know about you, the better vacation and relationship you'll get.

Ted Friedli

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

H. L. Mencken

Among advocates of limited government there is despair. This is the biggest-spending president since Lyndon Johnson. And if he spends the kind of money that's being talked about here, I don't know if there will ever have been a president who increased spending as fast as this one did.

David Boaz

My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.

Jools Holland

Full, open deliberations can yield a better result for all of North Carolina, ... State taxpayers deserve full accountability of how the state spends their money.

Roy Cooper

It's my hope that he spends every minute of the rest of his life without seeing the light of day and thinking about what he did.

Keith Henderson

In a large university, the president spends so much time on fundraising and legislative relations and big thinking that they need a day-to-day management czar.

David Longanecker

Nobody spends more time with the junior golfers than Pete.

Scott Johnstone

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Henry C. Link

He came out first with quite a few broad-brush themes, saying Japan has too much debt and spends it public money the wrong way.

Jeffrey Young

Jamie probably spends 15 hours a week at the course on top of what we do as a team.

Kris Reinert

I take it as a serious responsibility to ensure that every penny the town spends was absolutely necessary.

Gary Katz

If the government spends money in the regions of the UK it is called subsidy. But if it pours it down the gullet of the cities and counties in south-east England it is called essential support of the infrastructure.

John Forsyth

Sterling gave us more size up front. Our rebounding improved with him back in the lineup. He'll get better as he spends more time on the court.

David Piehler

She's bright but more than anything she is very dedicated. She spends endless hours preparing labs and is always interested in the cutting edge.

Brian Doherty

Over the years, we've seen her talent develop as she has moved up through the ranks to hold lead roles for our past two Broadway productions. She spends countless hours working on her skills through her voice and dance lessons.

Michael Rozell

She should keep a tight book on everything she spends to get a real good fix on where her money is going.

Bill Lane

The Air Force spends a significant amount of money testing equipment, and operational costs go up each year with the aging of equipment. Our job is to keep those costs down and the planes flying.

Bruce Thompson

Jennifer spends a lot of time working on her game and the biggest thing with Jennifer this season is her consistency and her confidence. She does a great job of keeping things in perspective and she is a big reason why we are having such a good season.

Jim Davidson

She's been a great mentor to me. She's always looking for new things to do with her students. She spends a lot of her spare time reading about her subject area, researching. She's really turned on my passion for science.

Karen Clark

If someone spends their holiday handing out trash bags, that's dedication.

Ray Stevens

I think we've got to face reality and realize that the farmer of the past--the one who spends 24/7 on the farm--is getting harder and harder to find. I did that for 35 years. I'm not a real estate salesperson, but I'm 60 and it's just something I have to do because farming just went downhill.

Keith Petterson

She's the opposite of a coach potato. She spends her days hunting on a farm. She's already lived that life.

Paul Lepiane

What happens is that the mother spends so much time with the child that the father's role ends up being a parenting aid.

John Rosemond

It is a play I've been looking at for a number of years. The problem was that I couldn't figure out how to get past some of the more risqué parts. Hawn's character spends much of her time in her lingerie. But I had my daughter look at it and she said we could do it and recommended some good alternatives that will make it acceptable to our audiences.

Josh Kaspar

Ashley is going to be a fantastic hitter. She has great plate discipline and a great knowledge of the strike zone. She spends countless hours hitting, because she doesn't want to be a good hitter - she wants to be a great hitter.

Thad Dickey

He doesn't like to run. He spends most of his time on the couch.

Sam Huber

It's estimated that a student spends an average of 30,000 dollars for their education in Canada, and that covers all their medical insurance and living expenses.

Rod Matheson

Hudson spends an extraordinary amount of work on his game. I couldn't tell you how many hours in a day he puts in. Hudson is a great example that you don't have to be 5 or 6 years old to start the game. He is lots of practice and effort.

Larry Cloninger

I don't think much of the president's plan, in part because it spends a lot of money on ineffective stimulus. The administration has even backed away from this being a stimulus plan. Now it's a long-term jobs and growth plan.

Jeffrey Wenger