Skyrocketing Quotes

Consumer spending is heavily devoted to hard goods. That implies for the most part that home-oriented things have been doing well for some time... Home sales have been skyrocketing. Every time a home changes hands, tens of thousands of dollars are spent on decorating, furnishings, adding new kitchens and bathrooms. - Kurt Barnard

California cannot continue to sustain skyrocketing housing prices that have ballooned over the last few years. The industry has been moving at a torrid pace to keep up with demand, but we expect prices will finally level off to a manageable level. - Alan Nevin

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring. - Russ Carnahan

As anybody in the United States is aware, the skyrocketing costs of health care are at crisis proportions. The union has been very reluctant to pay any of that. - Richard Maloney

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. - Mitt Romney

[WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer of New York on Monday asked the Bush administration to release oil from the U.S. emergency stockpile to help ease higher prices due to Hurricane Katrina.] Skyrocketing gas prices have tipped consumers upside down this summer and to protect our economy, the President should act immediately to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve... If there was ever a time for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be tapped, it would be now. - Charles Schumer

[This statement is patently absurd on its face. MALDEF seeks to equate its own controversial political agenda with] justice for Latinos. ... Without a doubt, skyrocketing litigation costs have come at the expense of programs that should be helping needy and needful Americans. - John Roberts

(From IVGID's point of view) you may be looking at a rec center (annual) fee of $1,500, a round of golf for $250 and skyrocketing water rates. - Bill Horn