America Quote by George Packer

Budget: a way of going broke methodically

— Groucho Marx

I worked with Democrats and Republicans to cut a trillion dollars out of our discretionary domestic budget. That's the largest cut in the discretionary…

— Barack Obama

I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national…

— Thomas Jefferson

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

— Jason Furman

I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

— William J. Clinton

Most of us have faced a - faced a serious budget problem or another at some pivotal moment in our lives.

— John Hickenlooper

We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding…

— Julia Stiles

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim…

— Mark McKinnon

I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit…

— Barack Obama

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in…

— Anonymous

You want to do tax reductions, you want to do permanent tax reduction, reductions in spending. You've got to go out and explain it…

— Rudy Giuliani

The word "budget" is the idea-killer. It slaughters any idea.

— James Pearse Connelly