Quotes About Spending

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.

Miami has been my second home for 15 years, so I look forward to spending more and more time here as co-owner of Miami FC, giving my enthusiastic contribution for its success.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.

With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Something different has to be done before we make another budget deal that increases spending and raises the debt some more. Our current course is not reasonable. Our current course is insane.