Quotes About Spending

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

A budget is a moral document.

Was it all worth it? The King might have said that without his extravagant spending, the luxurious experiences for which his country is still celebrated would not have come into existence. The businessman might have added that without it, tourism would not be France's number-one industry today.

I can't imagine anything more fun that spending a holiday in the home of the man who wants me dead. Like our own fuckin' Hallmark movie, but with live ammo.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

We need to start thinking about waste as a forward-looking problem, not a backward-looking one. That means realizing that spending another minute or another dollar or another bit of effort on something that is no longer worthwhile is the real waste.

America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight.

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink, and possibly eliminate government programs.

There's nothing progressive about spending more on servicing your debt than on educating your children.

If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spending in all my business career to prevent my business from going bankrupt. The federal government has got to start doing that eventually as well.

We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.

I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month.

You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.

Mitt Romney knows America's prosperity didn't happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money to open a business.

Look around you and you see plenty of prosperous businessmen splurging money like there was no tomorrow but paying no taxes.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.

I think it was iTunes that first proved that people would spend money to get things they really wanted.

spending, by one estimate, $5.4 trillion on the "War on Terror.