Quotes About Spending

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

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

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

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.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.