Quotes About Spending

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.

This country doesn't have a revenue problem - it has a spending problem.

We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

I know there are so many rich people in this country, and yet they don't know how to spend their money.

It was quite emotional leaving 'Holby' but it was the right time. I was working long hours and wanted to spend more time with my daughter.

I don't go in for that big fashion routine. It's a waste of money.

My philosophy is to save, spend minimally, and buy things as much as you can on sale, never pay full price, and just don't spend a lot of money at the end of the day.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

Other people's view was that saving a rupee is a rupee earned. But for our family, earning two rupees is a rupee earned. That means spending that 1 rupee to make that happen is what it is. It is a difference of risk-taking appetite, going out and doing stuff.

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

I've never been money savvy.

Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.

The most I've spent on shoes were a pair from Kurt Geiger for £250.

Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay off my American Express Bill" - Peter Ustinov, 1921-2004

By the time of the jury selection, the State of California had spent $1,301,836 on Richard Ramirez, and the case hadn't even gone to trial.

The people there were obsessed with gold. They were convinced they were going to make a fortune, and some of them did, but they also spent it.

In 2010, 70 percent of federal tax revenue was consumed by three entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.