“President Bush's pledge to halve the budget deficit by 2009 distracts policymakers from the real issue of unsustainable trends in long-term entitlement spending. The president's proposal to slow Medicare's 9% annual growth rate is a good fiscal step, but the budget does not propose enough immediate and bold reforms to the quickly growing entitlement programs that threaten to overwhelm the budget.”
Brian Riedl
“The Supreme Court has not directly faced the issue of whether 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First Amendment.”
Carl W. Tobias
“The fact of the matter is they pledged to lay down their arms when President Aristide resigned, and so we are holding them to their pledge,”
James Foley
“Last month President Bush announced a pledge of $200 million to jump-start the global fund -- a bold new public-private partnership to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria,”
Colin Powell
“[But he pledged to bring the issue to a vote.] I don't know that we'll have the votes on the day we get back, no, ... But I think we'll have the votes next week as the chairmen work with their members.”
Roy Blunt
“Judges in the mould of Scalia and Thomas were the 'no new taxes' pledge of this presidency.”
David Frum
“Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff. [Carrie]”
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