At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12.
Hans Gruber: The circuits that cannot be cut are cut automatically in response to a terrorist incident. You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the F.B.I.
Dr. Lawrence Gordon: He doesn't want us to cut through our chains. He wants us to cut through our feet!
Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
It's really been a long-term dream of mine to have an alternative to wood-based paper. Over half of the trees cut in the world are cut for paper products.
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.
Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.
The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.
My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
When the poverty comes in the room automatically love go from room windows.
The ungrateful son is like a wart on his father's face; to leave it there is unsightly, to cut it off is painful.
Ned Logan: Hell, Will. We ain't bad men no more. Shit, we're farmers. Will Munny: Should be easy killing them, supposing they don't go on down to Texas first. Ned Logan: How long has it been since you fired a gun at a man, Will? Nine, ten years? Will...
