Quotes About Spending

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.

I shop like a bull - I charge everything!

A fool and his money are soon parted.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

Laptops are important, but before you spend a million dollars per school providing one laptop per child... won't you please spend $5,000 per school equipping every classroom with a document camera?

Fiscal prudence is very important.

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them.

If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.

I try to use my debit card rather than a credit card, but I will use a credit card for big purchases because I bank with Coutts and I get points.

If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it off before you go deeply in debt.

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.

It's clear from what we have already learned that the Obama administration freely used our tax dollars for political purposes, including support of the Soros operation.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

Anything that puts money back in the pockets of the consumer, however you choose to do it, is a good idea.

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for.