Quotes About Spending

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

It is one of the sad ironies of life that one has to make money in order to spend time but waste time in order to make money. In

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

Washington-based industry lobby group, reported that in 1999 American biotech companies spent more than half of the sector's revenues, $11 billion in total, on research. No other industrial group spends anything near that proportion of total revenues on research, not even the major pharmaceutical companies, which are usually named as the world's biggest R&D spenders.

The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave.

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

It is foolish for Republicans to continue opening the door to job-killing tax hikes while Democrats refuse to explain how they propose to reform mandatory spending - mostly entitlements - that makes up almost two-thirds of the federal budget.

I'm not really the type that spends money on myself.