Quotes About Spending

For many of us, milkbars gave us our first taste of the concept of saving and spending, treats and indulgence.

We have to reverse spending trends that are not job-creating.

As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessive subsidies have made the state a playground for Lifeline fraud.

There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats' Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row - they don't have have a saying for being fooled three times!

We buy things, not with money, but with our precious life we call time.

Love is the most valuable currency of life which you can spend as much as you want without the risk of bankruptcy.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. You must learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

The only currency that we really have to spend during our lives is time. Everything else is just a sub-category.

The administration had spent $4.5 billion on the 2001 war in Afghanistan, including $390 million just to replace a bomber, a tanker, two helicopters, and two unmanned aerial vehicles that crashed during operations. Yet the administration would not propose to spend even 10 percent of the war's cost on Afghanistan's recovery or to secure the peace with new Afghan forces.

Doug Lute noted to an interagency meeting that the Taliban appeared to be succeeding with very lean operating funds: "We spend $60 billion a year," Lute remarked. "They need $60 million a year."7

son of the steward." As the nicknames make clear, we don't like to spend a lot of money. But we don't economize just for the sake of skimping.

Set up cash envelopes for the three categories where you most commonly overspend. The most commonly overspent categories we've seen are food, clothing, and recreation. Make a game of it to see how much of your cash remains in the envelope at the start of the next

The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

If you have your own money, you feel entitled to spending your own money how you'd like to, and that's a slippery slope.

Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?'

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

Tennesseans know they can count on me to never compromise on independent, conservative principles and that I will always fight for smaller government, less spending, and more jobs.