Daniel Hannan Quotes

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

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

Remember that every dollar spent by the federal government is spent in somebody's district.

The role of the president is to take care of your money, and that's what I intend to do.

The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to.

I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

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

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

He who has four and spends five, has no need of a purse.

Our system of keeping the federal government's books is a monument to the creativity of mankind ... We've cut government spending for 15 years in a row, and yet have spent more money in each of those years.

Deficits aren't always bad if you invest the money.