Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmens compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. – Meg Whitman
You cant stand for too many things. You cant use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education. – Meg Whitman
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. Its all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. – Meg Whitman
And I want to be able to – you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California. – Meg Whitman
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones