Quotes About Spending

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.

In fact, what determines your wealth is not how much you make but how much you keep of what you make.

The problem isn't our income; it's what we do with our money once we get it... how much you earn has almost no bearing on whether or not you can and will build wealth.

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

Overall, the United States spent $63 billion of its own money on Iraq's reconstruction throughout the war.

Since 9/11, there's been a huge spike in biodefense spending, resulting in a slew of new Level 4 labs popping up across the country.

We'll get security when people decide it's important enough. They say it's important, but the evidence is people don't think it's important enough to pay for. If it's important enough, vendors will pay attention to it. It doesn't matter what people say if they're not willing to spend extra for it, cash and cycles and memory and things like that.

Time is the most valuable thing you have; be sure you spend it well

Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care.

Think of it—all ours, to do as we like with, for as Harold Skimpole so rightly observes, £60 saved is £60 gained, and I'd reckoned on spending it all.

Ford slapped a five-pound note on the bar. He said, "Keep the change." "What, from a fiver? Thank you, sir." "You've got ten minutes left to spend it.

Sen. Proxmire, the watchdog of the scientific community, has tracked down and reported taxpayer-financed scientific research that is redundant, unnecessary, or just plain silly. Those projects that represent an egregious waste of taxpayer money are given his highest award, known as the Golden Fleece. Many of the projects that win the award seem amusing, until one examines the cost.

We Russians, on the contrary, practise prodigality,' she said.

It's frightening, you know, how soon money goes if you're not clever about it.

Americans spend more on potato chips than on recorded music.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

A remarkably disciplined scholar, Jefferson spent money on books the way less purposeful young men spent it on whiskey or women.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

That's not the way the government works. You can't just take $1 billion from this program, $1 billion from over here, and then put it toward your pet project.

I go through phases with money. I'll spend it liberally and then I'll panic and won't spend anything.

All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.

There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.