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John Spratt

"We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus."

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Donna Grant

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

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Donna Grant

"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."

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Donna Grant

"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

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Donna Grant

"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"

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Donna Grant

"There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once."

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Donna Grant

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."

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Donna Grant

"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."

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Donna Grant

"I like breaking the rules."

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Donna Grant

"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."

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Donna Grant

"The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?"

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John Spratt
"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."

Policy

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John Spratt
"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget."

Education

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John Spratt
"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."

Duty

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John Spratt
"We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence."

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John Spratt
"We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus."

Rules

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John Spratt
"And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?"

Direction

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John Spratt
"Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion."

Nation

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John Spratt
"We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid."

Debt

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John Spratt
"This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner."

War

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John Spratt
"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."

War

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