Quotes About Spending

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're actually paying for.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.

Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

The Queen is so poor she has to spend her own money.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.

Binder was living on the edge already and knowing it, knowing that he was spending time like money he might not be able to replace.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

There are many reasons for increased spending on health care, including an aging population, technological change, perverse incentives, supply-induced demand, and fear of malpractice litigation. The broader point is that the basic underlying problem does not entail misbehavior or incompetence but rather stems from the nature of the provision of labor-intensive services.

First, we invest now so that we may spend later. In fact, this is the essence of investing: the forbearance of immediate spending in exchange for future income. Because of the mathematics of compound interest, spending even a tiny fraction on a regular basis devastates final wealth over the long haul.

The easiest way to get rich is to spend as little as possible.

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

In the 1990s, global military expenditures declined by perhaps 40 percent, and stocks of weapons of all kinds fell.

it is true that the recession has been made much worse by Downing Street since the Coalition took office. But what was actually needed was not Labour's cherished solution to every problem - more borrowing and spending that we couldn't afford. Instead there should have been a rapid transfer of money from unproductive areas, like pointless bureaucracy, into job-creating activities such as house and road building.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

Todos los estados-nación modernos están construidos sobre la base del gasto deficitario. La deuda se ha erigido en tema central de la política internacional. Pero nadie parece saber exactamente qué es ni qué pensar de ella.

If everybody in the world suddenly decided not to use their credit cards for three days, the whole global economy would be in serious trouble. (Recall how we were all urged to get out our credit cards after 9/11 and get back to shopping.) Which is why so much effort is put toward getting money out of our pockets and keeping it circulating.