Paul Harvey Quotes

As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.

When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.

We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That's why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers' expense, must end.

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.

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

Can the amazing national debt be paid by a little trifling sum squeezed from year to year out of America?.... Would it not be much superior wisdom, and sounder policy, for a distressed kingdom to retrench the vast unnecessary expenses continually incurred by its enormous vices?

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.

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.

We give lip service to the importance of deficit reduction, but Americans oppose every single thing that you might do to reduce the deficit.

We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in the sacrifice.

We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.

Certainly, cutting spending is one of the things that can transcend to the federal government. I mean, I think the federal government has grown by leaps and bounds, and they need to look where do they need to cut.

We must cut federal spending - every wasted dollar, every low priority program, and every unconstitutional overreach - every day.

When I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. Washington is full of big spenders. Let's make them squeal.

Increased spending, all these favors that we got to do for people - it's got to stop.

I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.