Excessive Spending Quotes

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.

If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.

The real problem with the government is not the deficit; it is that the government spends too much money.

We will spend and spend, and tax and tax, and elect and elect.

Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.

What chiefly governs the military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

The purchase of unnecessary military hardware is undoubtedly the most wasteful element in American government.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.

Today, the Federal Government is simply trying to do too much.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

In no place, even Paris, was the social part of the government carried to such excess.

You spend a billion here and a billion there. Sooner of later it adds up to real money.

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

The crazy thing is I got all of these shoes, and probably 80 percent of them I've never worn before. I've worn all the glasses. I sleep in them, bend them up a little bit. Glasses are on all the time except when I'm at practice or at work.

I did 'Land of the Dead,' which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don't think it needed to be that big. That money went largely to the cast. They were great, but I don't think that money needed to be spent.

Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Dubai has been built very fast. The plan was money. The architect was money. The designer was money … And if you ever wondered what money would look like if it were left to its own devices, it’s Dubai.

… frittered away, 9 times out of 10, in things which pertain to the body and not to the spirit; upon richer food and drink, better clothing, more extravagant living, which are beneficial neither to rich or nor poor.