Quotes about Budget

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

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

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.