Quotes About Finance

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.

When government borrowing and spending go up, private borrowing and spending go down.

I'm very aware of my spending, but I'm not very aware of my income. There are certain times when I speak to my accountant, or something will pop up, and I'll be like 'oh' but it's not really a frontrunner in my head.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

Hiding spending does not reduce spending.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Federal spending is atrocious.

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.

When I first turned pro, I was making a lot of money, and I was spending money from two fights down the line.

I'm not very good with spending money.

You don't help the economy by spending money.