#spending

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn. ↗

— Harry Browne

#achieve #earn #everything #far #good

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#atheists #bunch #cannot #does #got

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money. ↗

— Jenson Button

#i #lots #made #mistakes #money

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#bill #congress #emergency #great #large

I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work. ↗

— Fred Upton

#conference #cut #entire #fight #folks

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things. ↗

— Chris Christie

#certain #certain things #continue #entitlement #entitlement programs

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing. ↗

— Chris Christie

#cutting #doing #government #i #line

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year. ↗

— Chris Christie

#am #balance #begin #budget #complaining

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid. ↗

— Fred Upton

#entitlement #even #focused #future #heavily