Government Expenditures Quotes

Balanced budgets have a lot to do with National Defense.

People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.

The military budget of the United States is becoming much like that of other government agencies—it is increasingly being devoted to pensions and health care.

This country doesn't have a revenue problem - it has a spending problem.

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.

Who can pretend that commercial imposts are, or would be, alone equal to the present and future exigencies of the Union?

Defense spending as a share of the economy dropped significantly during the early 1990s, and that was one of the things, along with other policy changes, that put us back on the path to a balanced budget.

Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

The easiest things to do in Congress are to cut taxes and raise spending.

General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government - is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid.

If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid account for half the Federal spending.

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.

I never defended the Bush administration's spending.

Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.

Cutting spending is harder than raising taxes. Every dollar of federal spending has a constituency.

The size of government is not altogether that large in this country.

Social spending is going up at a tremendous rate. The irony is that it went up even faster during the “prudent” years of Republican administration more so than it did under the “spendthrift” Democratic administrations….