Spending Quotes

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

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.

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

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.

I just can't stop myself; I'm addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner.

This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both Parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

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

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford.

Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.

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.

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.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

You develop a bond that comes from spending too much time together.

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

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

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

You find me a Democrat that's for cutting spending $10 and I'll give them a warm kiss.