Government Spending Quotes
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Government Spending Quotes & Sayings
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The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
— George Osborne
How do you hold down government spending?
— Milton Friedman
Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
— Tony Campolo
Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.
— Joe Craft
For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
— Mike Lee
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
— Grover Norquist
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.
— Julie Bishop
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
— Thomas Sowell
We're going to have to control the spending of government.
— Kevin McCarthy
Government is just spending too much money.
— Bob Schaffer
Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
— Hank Johnson
The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.
— Ronald Reagan
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
— Rick Perry
Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.
— Jeff Sessions
I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
— David Letterman
Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
— Herbert Hoover
When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.
— Howard Warren Buffett
I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'
— Eric Cantor
Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.
— Timothy Griffin
If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
— Mitt Romney
It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.
— Charles Edward Merriam
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
— James Madison
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
— Jim DeMint
What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.
— Kevin McCarthy
The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.
— Dick Armey
[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.
— Lawrence Lessig
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
— Larry Elder
First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?
— Carl Sagan
The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.
— R. Lee Wrights
Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.
— Brian Sandoval
We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.
— Henry Morgenthau Jr.
Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.
— Sheldon Richman
We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.
— Marsha Blackburn
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.
— Matt Taibbi
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
— Newt Gingrich
Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!
— Bob Beauprez
Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.
— Andrew P. Harris
Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.
— Johnny Isakson
Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.
— Richard Wagner
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
— Ronald Reagan
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
— Peter Brimelow
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
— Mike Pence
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
— Mark McKinnon
The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.
— Milton Friedman
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.
— Grover Norquist
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
— Ronald Reagan
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
— Margaret Thatcher
The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.
— Phil Gramm
The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.
— Linda Ronstadt