spending quotes

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.