Quotes about Budget
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Ronald Reagan
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
- Ronald Reagan
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
- Ronald Reagan
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.
- John F. Kennedy
If you can't fit everything in within the time and budget allotted then don't expand the time and budget. Instead, pull back the scope. There's always time to add stuff later — later is eternal, now is fleeting.
- Jason Fried
You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.
- Elizabeth George
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
- Ted Deutch
I will never, ever balance a budget on the backs of our seniors.
- Todd Young
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan
It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.
- George W. Bush
Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?
- Ronald Reagan