Quotes About Expenditure

It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

For eight long years, the Obamas spent our tax dollars for a lavish jet-setting lifestyle.

Some months the bill might run $10,000 or even $12,000. More than 200,000 guests received invitations to the Johnson White House during the five years they lived there.

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.

Three-quarters of the expenditure of wit and the lies told out of vanity that have been squandered since the world began by people who in doing so merely diminish themselves have been squandered on inferiors.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

We spend a trillion dollars a year on food, but it's only 9.4 percent of our expendable income, the lowest percentage of any country on record.

Politicians argued successfully for cuts in expenditure and more openness. Consequently, secret services became more answerable to politicians than they ever had been, just at a time when they needed to be more furtive.

Parenti reported in 1999 that yearly expenses of the correction industry were between $20 and $35 billion annually with "more than 523,000 full-time employees working . . . more than in any Fortune 500 company except General Motors.

More than $7 billion a year was spent in prison construction during the 1990s. By 2012 the annual cost of maintaining prisons at all levels rose to over $60 billion.

In his farewell address to the nation after serving two terms as president, George Washington urged his fellow citizens to "avoid . . . the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear."76

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

I call our bathroom 'The Vault' because the door's always locked and whatever goes on in there costs a $hitload of money.

Americans are the most overmedicated people on earth, with overall domestic sales of prescription drugs totaling $ 235.4 billion. 33

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.

Per capita health care cost in the United States surpasses that of most other developed countries. Despite this, U.S. costs are rising at comparable rates.