Roy Blunt Quotes

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

Budget drives everything that we do.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in debt. You'd tell him to get his act together - stop spending so much or he'd destroy his family, impoverish his kids and wreck their future. Of course, no individual could live so irresponsibly for long. But tack on eight more zeroes to that budget and you have the checkbook for our out-of-control, big-spending federal government.

Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

I have a personal prosperity plan. I know where my money goes, and how I can spend it more fruitfully. A prosperity plan is something fluid that may alter month to month.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

There must be some flexibility in the budget. You cannot have too much discipline.

If you don’t balance your budget in business, you go out of business.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

Ajax was spending too much money; they were buying players that were too expensive. If you get 100 per cent, you can't spend 120 per cent. It's quite easy.

I've made a payroll. I know what it's like to execute a business plan. I know what it's like to expect the proper return on investment... and I know you can't spend your way out of debt.

In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.