Resource Drain Quotes

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources both material and political.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

It is a national humiliation that we are now compelled to pay from twenty to thirty million dollars annually to foreigners for doing the work which should be done by American vessels, American built, American owned, and American manned. This is a direct drain upon the resources of the country of just so much money; equal to casting it into the sea, so far as this nation is concerned.

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.

After watching Taro reach the brink of bankruptcy, seeing their shares delisted from trading, hearing endless false promises about receiving audited financial statements, and witnessing an unchecked drain of company resources, the shareholders have clearly had enough.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.