About Quote by Pat Toomey

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

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent…

— Paul Ryan

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of…

— Karl Rove

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly…

— Thomas Frank

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would…

— Craig L. Thomas

We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end…

— John Thune

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we…

— John Spratt

“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 continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to…

— Jeff Miller

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows,…

— Will Rogers

The first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. We Republicans came to power…

— John McCain

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

— Grover Norquist