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Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
Robert M. Gates / United States Secretary Of Defense
Defense
Spending
Discretionary
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My giving is discretionary, but keeping the business going is not.
Michael Hintze /
Discretionary
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Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.
Alexa Von Tobel / Author
Differences
Expenses
Knows
Difference
Discretionary
Necessary
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The decision to attack Iraq in March 2003 was discretionary; it was a war of choice.
Richard N. Haass / Diplomat
March
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The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Housing
Cap
Discretionary
Payments
Sets
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You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.
Dan Crenshaw /
Drivers
Discretionary
Mandatory
Tackle
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Naturally, liquidity is a big factor in any market that seems to be a lot of money in the world, and there's a lot of discretionary money.
Larry Gagosian / Art Dealer
Liquidity
Discretionary
Factor
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We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.
Martin O'malley / Governor Of Maryland
Dollars
Majority
Wealth
Capital
Concentrated
Discretionary
Vast
Vast Majority
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
Gary Ross / Film Director
Entertainment
Profitable
Family Movies Look
Discretionary
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Too many people on the Left think that, when you move a chunk of money away from people for entitlements, that the money magically reappears and that discretionary spending will be unaffected.
Dana Loesch /
Entitlement
Money People Will
Chunk
Discretionary
Too Many People
Unaffected
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There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to break the one-to-one link between changes in foreign reserves and changes in the money supply.
Steve Hanke /
Break
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Policy
Reserves
Bank
Central
Central Bank
Discretionary
Engage
Link
Supply
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And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.
David Price / Baseball Player
Blame
Fall
Including
Security
Spending
Budget
Cliff
Discretionary
Domestic
Short
Far
Fiscally
Pass
Pin
Resolutions
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People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.
Brian Sandoval / Governor Of Nevada
Campaigns
People
Want
Money People Right
Campaign
Candidate
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Discretionary
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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.
John Spratt / Former U.s. Representative
Education
Health
Environment
Growing
Health Care
Percent
Spending
Years
Education Health Care
Category
Year
Budget
Discretionary
Domestic
Ignores
Rein
Says
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It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.
Craig L. Thomas / Former United States Senator
Cutting
Defense
Federal Government
Last Year
Percent
Spending
Rise
Alleged
Budget
Discretionary
Federal
In Fact
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Trillions of dollars in out-of-control entitlement spending cannot be remedied by cuts in NASA, or even in the entire discretionary budget, defense included. Rather, the financial bleeding needs to be staunched where the hole is and nowhere else.
Robert Zubrin / Author
Bleeding
Defense
Dollars
Financial
Nasa
Spending
Nowhere
Budget
Cuts
Discretionary
Entire
Hole
Included
Out-Of-Control
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Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.
Brian Baird / Former United States Representative
Balance
Contradictory
Cutting
Deficit
Governing
Numbers
Spending
Taken
Taxes
Thinking
Annual
Budget
Combined
Discretionary
For Example
Pledges
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If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
Maria Bartiromo / Journalist
Car
Economic Growth
Gas
Growth
Income
Items
Washing
Winter
Discretionary
Extra
Fill
Gas Station
Ticket
Washing Machine
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I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things.
Heidi Hammel /
Education
Bigger
Country
Good Education
Nasa
Ten
Advocate
Away
Budget
Part
Discretionary
Factor
Increasing
Roads
Taking
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In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
Jack Lew /
Deficit
Dwight
Freeze
Lowest
National Security
Spending
Category
Billion
Budget
Decade
Discretionary
Eisenhower
Five-Year
Reduce
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The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We've seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.
Eric Cantor / U.s. Representative
Levels
Spending
People America American
Acted
American People
Discretionary
Expressed
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