Quotes About Spending

According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

I buy whatever I see, but I tend to not spend money just to spend it.

It's easier to create money than to spend it.

Rich people invest money and poor people spend it.

We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

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.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.

I spend money as if I had it.

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?