Addiction Quote by Julie Bishop

Spending is an addiction.

— Jim DeMint

The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money...

— Doug Bandow

The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.

— Michael Burry

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required…

— Anonymous

In an economy where public spending is extremely important, the governments must spend, they must spend more but at the same time you can't…

— Arun Jaitley

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this…

— George Osborne

When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

— Mike Lee

Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or debt expansion…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

— Tim Pawlenty

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

— Henry Ford

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying…

— John Redwood

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow…

— Abraham Lincoln