Quotes About Spending

In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.

United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student. Here

The taxpayers are getting screwed by Congress and the Department of Education.

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.

My wallet is like an onion. When I open it..it makes me cry.

People who spend money to explore and make memories are much happier than people who spend their money in luxurious stuff.

Elsewhere, Meadows turned intransigence into a matter of principle; upon refusing Biden's team access to a specialized computer system necessary to begin work planning the next president's budget, Meadows said, "You just can't expect us to endorse your spending plans.

They taught us to manage money and how to et a good price for our eggs, chickens or pigs. We used to know how to do that -- we weren't dumb; but since we never had any surplus, we had no money to manage. The only money we ever saw went right past us; no sooner had we earned a few cents than they were spent on aspirin . . . those kinds of things.

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

Congress still preserved its constitutionally mandated power of the purse.

The average urban family spent fully one-third of its budget on food.8

Good offense consists of developing business, trying cases with success, and building a good reputation within the trial community. Playing good defense means running the law firm like a business, being conservative in your spending, and worrying about tomorrow much more than about today.

Love is not something you save and hoard. You're born with it and you spend it when you have to and there's always more because you're a woman and there's always suffering and pain and gentleness and sadness to make it grow.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitation services, and basic education to every person on the planet.4

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

It is not of the slightest use to economise ; every farthing improperly saved does a shilling's worth of damage ; and that is getting a bargain the wrong way.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.