Bureaucracy Quote by Donald Rumsfeld

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

— Robert Carlyle

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because…

— Grover Norquist

The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as well. In…

— Tim Walz

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

— Brad Schneider

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And…

— Nancy Pelosi

We are not the result of the choices we make, but our efforts are. The amount of effort one puts towards his or her…

— Frank Matobo

You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more…

— Rahm Emanuel

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

— Amity Shlaes

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

— Rand Paul

It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money…

— Bill Scott

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know…

— Carly Fiorina

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of…

— Ruth Ann Minner