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You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're…

— Ben Quayle

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various…

— Fareed Zakaria

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

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and…

— Manmohan Singh

Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value…

— Robert Higgs

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

— Byron Dorgan

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced…

— Richard Wagner

We must have government that spends less and does less.

— Tom Coburn

The government should spend money earned through taxes on social welfare schemes, create infrastructure and in other priority areas, whether national security or providing…

— Anurag Thakur

We have to define our top priority pending expenditures; these are, first and foremost, our social expenditures, and we have to cut on expenditures…

— Anton Siluanov

How do you hold down government spending?

— Milton Friedman