Spending Quotations | Page 9

It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

We're just thankful having him here and to be spending Christmas together as a family. It's been seven years since John has been here.

We suspect economic activity over much of 2006 will be held back by sluggish consumer spending and that the Bank of England's growth forecast will prove to be too optimistic.

If they're spending time wondering how to own the customer, they're thinking about the wrong thing. With this much information available to consumers, owning the customer is not a reality.

If they're gainfully employed, most employers offer health insurance. Take advantage of everything that's offered, including flexible spending accounts.

If they can convince people with money that, yes, you're spending $20 more here, but we offer products you can't get elsewhere, perhaps it will work.

If they can afford to spend money on that kind of thing for visitor attraction why aren't they spending the money on getting this facility going?

If they are going to run a higher deficit, then they will have to resort to higher borrowings, pushing up interest rates and fueling inflation. Whenever there's inflation, spending on manufactured goods comes down.

If they feel like the consumer is losing his strength and his spending power in the market, and he's going to be putting more money into savings, that's going to make the market nervous.

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.