Budgets Quote by Argus Hamilton

What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000…

— John Stossel

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at…

— Mitt Romney

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…

— Richard M. Nixon

“From the founding of the Republic to 1929, spending by governments at all levels, federal, state, and local, never exceeded 12 percent of the…

— Milton Friedman

I have fought against excessive spending my entire career. And I got plans to reduce and eliminate unnecessary and wasteful spending and if there's…

— John McCain

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is…

— Laura Miller

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

— Julie Bishop

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any…

— Thomas Massie

“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas. Wait—Texas? Wasn't…

— Paul Krugman

I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.

— Nikki Haley

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

— Herbert Hoover