Spending Quotes - Page 6

• As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

  Tim Scott

  Loud, Clear, Reins

  "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.

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• Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

  Robert W. Service

  Winning, Saving, Easy

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• I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.

  Maria Sharapova

  Beach, Ocean, Mean

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• While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

  Michael Sheen

  Home, Spending Time, Britain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.

  Simon Sinek

  Military, Spending Time, Share

  "The Human Side Of Organizations: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.

  Mark Skousen

  Girl, Sex, Vacation

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• The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Government, Goal

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Political, Want

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• Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

  Herbert Spencer

  Love, Rewards, Wealth

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• The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Political, Ceilings, Debt

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• Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

  Charles Stanley

  Mom, Baby, Teenager

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• After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

  R. L. Stine

  New York, Ohio, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

  John Sununu

  Art, Wall, War

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• Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.

  James Surowiecki

  Needs, Cyberspace, Should

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• When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Media, Church, Twisted

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• The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Average, Tea

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• The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Evil, Debt

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• Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

  Gene Tierney

  Son, Chaplin, Strict

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

  Donald Trump

  Oil, Trying, Doe

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, blogs.abcnews.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Country, Taxation, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

  Liv Tyler

  Hard Work, Two, Trying

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• I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.

  Carrie Underwood

  Jobs, Husband, Batteries

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• I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

  Gabrielle Union

  Solitude, Good Times, Spending Time

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• I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

  Eddie Vedder

  Eye, Gas Stations, Sandwiches

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• Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

  Tom Vilsack

  Hands, Risk, Three

  "Vilsack offered to resign over flap" by Roger Simon, www.politico.com. August 25, 2010.

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