Quotes about Budget

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.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.

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

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

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.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

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

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

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.

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