Expenditure Control Quotes

I do not pretend to step out of my own sphere and to control the internal management of other departments, but it seems to me that as Secretary of the Treasury, I may ask, that, while peace continues, the aggregate of the expenditure of those departments be kept within bounds such as will preserve the equilibrium between the national revenue and expenditure without recurrence to loans.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

To the senate belongs, in the first place, the sole care and management of the public money. For all returns that are brought into the treasury, as well as all the payments that are issued from it, are directed by their orders. Nor is it allowed to the quaestors to apply any part of the revenue to particular occasions as they arise, without a decree of the senate

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

Under no circumstances will I allow expenditures upon works not clearly national.

Cost reduction and cost control are by their very nature sort of anti-social activities.

Budget issues consume bureaucrats because an adequate budget which is generally defined as an increase over the previous … year, is a reflection of the operational capacity, current health, importance, and future prospects of an organization.

Whether you're managing the finances for a household of one, a business of a thousand, or a government of several hundred million, there's no more important statement of fiscal intent you can make than putting together a responsible budget - one that acknowledges its available means, and makes a reasonable attempt to live within them.

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.

It is no part of my job as Chancellor of the Exchequer to put before the House of Commons proposals for the expenditure of public money. The function of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as I understand it, is to resist all demands for expenditure made by his colleagues and, when he can no longer resist, to limit the concession to the barest point of acceptance.

It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an increasing deficit must, in the end, if continued, prove ruinous.

I have fought against excessive spending my entire career. And I got plans to reduce and eliminate unnecessary and wasteful spending and if there's anybody here who thinks there aren't agencies of government where spending can be cut and their budgets slashed they have not spent a lot of time in Washington.

You never have to change a book for budget.

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

I worry very much that we're in a situation now where there doesn't appear to be any limitation whatsoever in terms of the spending commitments that Obama's administration wants to make. Vast expansion in terms of the deficit, but it also says a lot about what they intend for the role of government in the society.

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

We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

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.

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