Quotes About Spending

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

The United States spends enough on 'defense' to provide every homeless American with a one-million-dollar home.

To a good spender God is the Treasurer.

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.

Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I'm afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

War is just one more big government program.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don't like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

For government to give, it must first take away.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.