Spending Quotes · Page 17

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

— Paul Ryan

Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.

— Rand Paul

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

— Lucinda Williams

Ive enjoyed programming on NPR, but were broke and therefore all spending must be reduced.

— Jaime Herrera Beutler

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

— Jack Abramoff

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I left the Navy as a lieutenant after spending almost 10 years as a helicopter pilot.

— Mikie Sherrill

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

— Barry Goldwater

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

— William Hague

For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity -…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Obviously the first thing we need to do is repeal “Obamacare.” That's one entitlement that we can get rid of. And that's…

— Rick Santorum

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never…

— Joyce Meyer

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about…

— Bjorn Lomborg

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

— Andrew Lansley

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an…

— Marco Rubio

Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole…

— Dee Dee Ramone

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is…

— Gretchen Rubin

We can't expect entrepreneurs and businesses large and small to take their life savings or their company's money and invest in America…

— Mitt Romney

Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the…

— Paul Krugman

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments.…

— Arnold Bennett

If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to…

— Tom Vilsack

The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families…

— Christina Romer

You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment,…

— Glen Duncan

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and…

— Ray Davies

In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to…

— Rolf Potts

Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day -…

— Jack Canfield

We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting…

— James Callaghan

Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and…

— Alfie Kohn

I left for the same reasons everyone leaves jobs that are no longer fulfilling their hopes and aspirations. I didn't see myself…

— Mark Knopfler

You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition…

— James M. Buchanan

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

— Carlos Castaneda

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

— George Stigler

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

— Marilyn Hacker

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

— Ansel Elgort

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

— Jim Rohn

It is not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic Con.

— George Clooney

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

— William Allan

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

— Ronald Reagan