This agency routinely violates two cardinal principles of economic progress: sound money and low taxes.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici described as "excellent" a Thursday breakfast meeting between he, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, and House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich. ( 41K AIFF sound or 41K WAV sound) Domenici said some progress had been made, and after the meeting, the three negotiators announced Friday's face-to-face session between Clinton and the Republican leadership.

CNN: Budget impasse continues amid mix of pessimism and hope

EU's Brussels-based negotiators sound pleased with Slovenia's progress towards membership.

ECONOMIST: Slovenia

Kudlow has long recognized what makes progress and prosperity possible: tax cuts, sound money -- low or no inflation, free trade, deregulation and spending restraints.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

Kudlow has long recognized what makes progress and prosperity possible: tax cuts, sound money -- low or no inflation, free trade, deregulation and spending re-straints.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Isay, of Sound Portraits Productions, says the StoryCorps project was inspired by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) recordings made during the 1930s.

NPR: StoryCorps, An Oral History of America

Though we sound a bit incredulous, the science is pretty simple here, and the progress on the project is very real.

ENGADGET: Shape-memory polymer knows when it's hurt, fixes itself

The chancellor also managed to sound slightly presumptuous when he revealed his plan to make a near-regal progress through Britain over the next 12 months in preparation for power.

ECONOMIST: Poor old Gordon Brown. Yet again Tony Blair has upstaged him

Now, if that's their opening position or their closing position in negotiations, then we're probably not going to make much progress, because I don't think that's economically sound and I don't think that's what the American people expect, is for us to stand by and do nothing.

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference