Quotes About Spending

Rockefeller spent a ridiculous amount of time protesting bills both large and small and scrutinized the smallest bills from grocers and butchers.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Tax increases don't eliminate deficits they increase govt. spending.

I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.

I don't think we'll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.

Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they are caused by too much spending. Presidents don't create deficits, Congress does. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of taxpayers' money; only congressmen can—and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.

Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.

We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit success because it's not $1 trillion.

Whenever you find yourself in a situation where you would have written a cheque or handed over your credit card, instead of feeling like you're somehow missing out, think, 'Isn't this marvellous! I don't have to incur any new debts.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

money he didn't have, but fuck it, that was the easiest kind to spend—and

It was enough to make a person suspicious. Spending too much time around Styx could do that to anyone.

In the United States, 90 percent of the money spent on drug policy goes to policing and punishment, with 10 percent going to treatment and prevention. In Portugal, the ratio13 is the exact opposite.

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

Granddad is more like Mummy than like me. He's erased his old life by spending money on a replacement one.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.