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Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal. -- Benigno Aquino III
There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. -- Bill Gates
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.' -- Ben Bernanke
I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. -- Ray Dalio
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie. -- Daniel Kahneman
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation. -- Adam Braun
The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief. -- Dick Morris
Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks. -- Anthony Noto
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. -- Robert Trout
To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive. -- Michael Johns
We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research. -- Abraham Robinson
In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use. -- Eric Maskin
Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state. -- Dale T. Mortensen
If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources. -- James Surowiecki
The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful one. Socialism is about who gets the goods and how. Socialism objects to markets because markets allocate resources in ways socialists believe to be unfair on both counts: both the who and the how. -- Virginia Postrel
The allocation of research money was a political act. -- Tom Clancy
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. -- W. Edwards Deming
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. -- Keith Davis
The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation. -- Michael LeBoeuf
We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. -- Frank Howard Clark
What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes. -- Scott D. Anthony
The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources. -- George Brandis
In the property division splitting couples go through, the allocation of friends must surely be the most painful. -- Christine Benvenuto
An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk. -- Michael LeBoeuf
The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage. -- C. K. Prahalad
On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation. -- Roger G. Ibbotson
You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. -- Ray Dalio
The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation. -- Tony Robbins
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions. -- Sheldon Richman
Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course. -- Henry Beard
We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level. -- Michael LeBoeuf
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the automatic response to the oil crisis. -- Milton Friedman
I get the sense many people are unsure about their digital media allocation. Even those who believe they are progressive in their thinking wonder if they have got it right. -- Mark Renshaw
We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance. -- Roger G. Ibbotson
Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life! -- Marcia Lynn McClure

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