Expenditure Reduction Quotes

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

It is impossible, financially and politically, to lower expenditure to the level of our revenues in the calamitous times in which we live, and so, however painful and afflicting the idea may be, we must exist from day to day and simply await the outcome of events yet in the making …

Reduction in taxes will be justified only as we can show we can succeed in bringing the budget under control.... Until we can determine the extent to which expenditures can be reduced, it would not be wise to reduce our revenues.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

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

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

By necessity, budgets require hard choices.

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.'

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.

If politicians want to save money, that's fine. They can look for all the wasteful spending they want, but not where the lives of miners are involved.

It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements.

Authorizers do a big dog and pony show, but when it comes to the top line, we have open warfare about what the top line will be …

We have to cut spending. We're - the thing is out of control.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

There are two ways to reduce expenditures. There is the intelligent way ... going through each department and questioning each program. Then there is the stupid way: announcing how much you will cut and getting each department to cut that amount. I favor the stupid way.

The only way to make budget cuts is to bring down force structure.

I'm against spending money to record.

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

You may think my business is to make appropriations, but it is not. It is to prevent their being made.