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Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

— Jim Ramstad

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the US Government was a family—they would be making $58,000 a year, spending $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt.…

— Dave Ramsey

There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about…

— Anonymous

The Senate has sent President Obama a spending bill that gives the government enough money to keep going for two weeks. Our Congress has…

— Conan O'Brien

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

We get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years. We do it by reducing spending in a whole series of programs. By…

— Mitt Romney

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

— Mike Thompson

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a…

— Jim Costa

“since the creation of the U.S. Federal Reserve almost a century ago, we have printed roughly $800 billion from 1913 to 2007. But in…

— Robert A. Wiedemer

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any…

— Thomas Massie

I don't know the time frame exactly, but it's clear they're all going to want to start spending money again.

— Andrew Gould