Government Spending Quotes

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Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Hello, my name is the republican party, and I have a problem. I am addicted to spending and the government - and a big government. I would like one of them just to stand up and say that.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

I'm coming to Washington D.C. to do the people's work, and the people's work has to do with - reducing spending, and - cutting budgets, and - and trying to get a grip on the size of government.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term gain for all.

For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has the financial planning skills of a college sophomore.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

I mean, the Obama position has been, "We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it."

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Government is just spending too much money.

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.

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

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.

How do you hold down government spending?

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.