Spending Quotes - page 26

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt. (Joe Kyrillos)
When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me. View quote
Joel Osteen
We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers. View quote
John Barrasso
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. View quote
John H. Sununu
I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea. View quote
John Hewson
And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot. View quote
John Hickenlooper
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. View quote
John Hurt
Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending. View quote
Jacob Lew
Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. View quote
John Redwood
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget. View quote
John Spratt
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)
The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets. View quote
Jon Meacham
The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody. View quote
Jon Runyan
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern. View quote
Juan Williams
I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body. View quote
Judy Reyes
In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year. View quote
Julian Baggini
The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. View quote
Julie Bishop
I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth. View quote
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
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. View quote
Ken Buck
I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising. (Ken Buck)
I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from foreign nations. That is selling our country to other nations because of the spending that is going on. View quote
Kendrick Meek
Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive. View quote
Kent Conrad
As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical. View quote
Kara Swisher
When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task. View quote
Karen Finerman