Bob Barr

MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

American Politician

Theresa Rebeck

I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else.

American Playwright

Joe Bastianich

Maitre d's are at the financial spigot of the restaurant, meaning they control who gets in and who doesn't, but aside from that, they don't do anything. And yet they get paid as much as the highest-paid people in the place.

American Chef

Eric Liu

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

American Writer

Spigot is commonly used in everyday language to refer to water faucets around the house.

Household Usage

Turning the spigot often means using your hand to twist a knob or lever.

Physical Action

A common context for spigot is to discuss issues like dripping or leaking, typically needing repair.

Leak Identification

A spigot can be a device attached to containers like barrels to control outflow of liquids.

Container Attachment

Spigots are often manually operated, requiring you to pull or twist them to release liquid.

Manual Use

Spigots are important in contexts like winemaking or brewing where controlling liquid output is necessary.

Brewing Context

In non-physical contexts, like finance, 'spigot' can metaphorically describe controlling resources flow.

Metaphorical Use

Used in finance, 'spigot' often relates to regulatory measures affecting the economy.

Regulatory Implication

'Spigot' in finance often pertains to government or central bank policies regulating money supply.

Economic Policy

 and see if anybody will give me police or troops to do the separation. And their response, of course, was no more than we wanted to stop the genocide and put our troops in harm's way to do that, nor do we now want to get in the way and pluck genocidaires from camps. So then you have to make the decision. Do you turn off the international spigot of life support

Samantha Power: Shaking...

 is still not quite sure how the water works when I turn on the spigot. So mysteries of the universe. I got one for you, ready? The refrigerator light. That one I get. There will be a button that pushes off. Oh, you found the button. That's where my science begins and ends.

The Sci in Sci-Fi PIPE...

 no way to filter it other than that they had to turn the spigot entirely law now these changes don't just affect people who want to censor messages they also affect people who want to send messages right because this is really a transformation the ecosystem as a whole