Quotes About Spending Other People's Money

#1. Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

David Limbaugh

#2. That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

John Randolph Of Roanoke

#3. A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Anne Northup

#4. When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

Tim Worstall

#5. Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.

Ed Crane

#6. We're not very good when we're spending other people's money.

Jason Jennings

#7. If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Sara Sheridan

#8. My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

Jack Ma

#9. Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Roger Moore

#10. In terms of monetary behavior, there are two types of people in this Earth: those who save and those who spend.

Anna Agoncillo

#11. Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

Philip Slater

#12. I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.

Richard Shepard

#13. A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.

Chuck Feeney

#14. We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

Jim Cooper

#15. ... I charged most of our fun on Daddy's credit card. Not like he would notice or care. And if he did, he'd always said that if money didn't buy happiness, then people were spending it wrong.

Cora Carmack

#16. More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls ... and the art world is eating those balls up!

Brian Chippendale

#17. There's a lot more satisfaction in thinking about money than in spending it, if people only knew.

Josephine Pinckney

#18. I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.

Marsha Blackburn

#19. The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

Jim Jordan

#20. Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

Joe Jamail

#21. My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.

Gary Gulman

#22. I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.

Larry Ellison

#23. People want the answer to cancer, and they're not going to get it without spending money, because money is frozen energy that unfreezes itself when you pay people to work.

Mary Lasker

#24. HBO spent a huge amount of money on 'Game Of Thrones,' and it won't be able to keep spending the money if it can't make it back from people watching it legitimately. It will have an effect on the quality of the programme.

Joe Dempsie

#25. A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

Bonnie Blair

#26. If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.

Michelle Singletary

#27. The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

Michael Enzi

#28. Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.

Thomas Perez

#29. People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.

Eric Lewis

#30. People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs.

Stephen Baker

#31. But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

Warren Beatty

#32. A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation's spending spree.

Susan Brooks

#33. Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Robert Kiyosaki

#34. In his first week on the throne, he vowed to make peace with all the nations we've ever warred with, cut military spending in half, funnel the money to education, and ... oh, yes, and phase out the empire itself, instating some ridiculous people's republic with elected officials.

Lindsay Buroker

#35. We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.

John Redwood

#36. I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.

Wes Craven

#37. The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

George Will

#38. Feelings about money
saving and spending, holding back and letting go
start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

Fred Rogers

#39. I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like. - Emile

Erin Loechner

#40. You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.

Huey Long

#41. We're spending money that we don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist at the behest of people we didn't elect.

Douglas Carswell

#42. In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Fareed Zakaria

#43. The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

Terry Gilliam

#44. We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

Kristi Noem

#45. If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

Rick Scott

#46. A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

Vanna Bonta