Spending Quotes

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.

I'm against spending money to record.

I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

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

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

The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.

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

Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

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

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Hiding spending does not reduce spending.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Government is just spending too much money.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

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

I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

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

I like spending time with my husband.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.