Quotes About Spending

Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.

People go on about how much players earn in the Premier League but once you've bought a nice house and car, what else is there to spend it on?

Back in Israel, I would spend much effort and plenty of money on presents when I went abroad, even if it was only for two days.

I grew up kind of poor, so like, I know it sounds pretentious, but I don't really know how to spend money.

We live in a culture built on debt, so we are encouraged to have no self control.

There's no debt limit in the Constitution.

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

We have to deal with the nation's debt.

I never defended the Bush administration's spending.

Trying to balance the budget through defense cuts is both counterproductive and impossible.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

I want to cut - personally, I want to cut spending. Personally, I just don't believe we can continue to add to the deficit. So, actually, personally, I like the budget cap.

Deficit, deficit, deficit. The political and media elites are obsessed with the D-word.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

Delhi is bleeding, while the government spends money on ads.

One of my rules is pay more, eat less. You do get what you pay for, and if you're willing to pay more for pastured eggs or grass-fed beef, you're getting something that's more delicious, and you'll feel better about eating it.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

I think one thing that Montanans all agree on, whether you're Republican or Democrat, is they want money spent appropriately.

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.