Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. Adam Smith More Quotes by Adam Smith More Quotes From Adam Smith What our maximum pressure campaign has done in terms of achieving our objectives, I have not seen, it was not very enlightening from what they said in there in terms of how it's going to progress ... how our actions are going to force the changes we're looking for. Adam Smith politics The committee denies this request. The committee does not approve the proposed use of Department of Defense funds to construct additional physical barriers and roads or install lighting in the vicinity of the United States border. Adam Smith us-news I hoped that President Trump and DoD (Department of Defense) would exercise careful consideration and develop a realistic path forward, however, the details of the Space Force proposal sent to Congress by the president are highly problematic. Adam Smith politics This was at best an error in judgment, and at worst flat-out dishonesty. Adam Smith politics I have followed up on that hearing with a phone call to Secretary Shanahan, and he has provided more details on the increase. I appreciate his willingness to discuss it with me, but a phone call is not a substitute for transparency before Congress and public candor. Adam Smith politics It demonstrates a continued unwillingness to seriously recognize and address the threat that climate change poses to our national security and military readiness. Adam Smith environment It's undeniable that we have a significant increase in asylum seekers, but that's not so much a job for the military as it is: we need more judges. We need to process them (the asylum seekers) more quickly. Adam Smith top-news What we can do is try to shine a light on it, to make the case that this is a bad idea, drum up public pressure so the president will stop doing these things. Adam Smith top-news That will be one of the chief things that my committee tries to do, is to put into the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) strict restrictions on how money can be used. Adam Smith top-news Unfortunately, the short answer is yes. Adam Smith politics Obviously, from a legal standpoint, Supreme Court nominee's making things worse, to the extent that the President is trying to stop( the investigation), he is not only potentially committing a crime, he is harming the national security interests of United States of America. Adam Smith politics We're headed towards a very, very difficult situation. Adam Smith politics We will give people access to food until it becomes a human right to have food, we won't stop until we do that. Adam Smith top-news They could have shut us down quite easily, but there were 500 people in the warehouse, including families and kids, with shopping trollies full of food. Adam Smith top-news We get everything from caviar and lobster to fruit and vegetables, the majority of dishes on our menus are chicken infused as we get 150 kilos of chicken a week. Adam Smith top-news We're not here to stop hunger, we're here to stop food going to waste, i truly believe the environmental aspect is what we should be looking at first. Adam Smith top-news We have fed half a million people across the world with expired food, i don't know how much more we have to do to prove it is safe. Adam Smith top-news What I am really worried about is not the amount of money, but how we spend it, you decide you want a 355-ship Navy, so you start building the ships, but then you don’t have the money to finish them. We are going to need some long-term planning based on realistic numbers. Adam Smith latest-headlines We do not have $600, $700, $800, $900 billion to spend on defense unless we pretty much completely eliminate all non-defense discretionary spending, which there isn’t support for doing, twenty trillion dollars in debt, a $706 billion deficit, trying to find $50 billion in mandatory savings, and the majority can’t even do that, all right? Adam Smith politics It’s not clear to me that if they maxed out sanctions and made it like Iran that it would make any policy difference. Adam Smith most-read-articles
