Rob Ford Quotes

That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.

In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.

When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars.

From day one, my focus as a new-breed appropriator was to look for areas where we could save taxpayer dollars.

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'

Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

A budget in difficult times can and must serve the people for whom it is designed.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of public moneys.

Every public official concerned with administering public funds owes it to all our citizens to be prepared at any time to account to the last penny of the public money placed in his hands.

To simply argue that public spending must always go up and never be cut is irresponsible.

We are saving taxpayers' money, I believe I am doing a very good job at mayor.

Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as the taxpayer must do to earn it in the first place.

The Gujarat government knows what's in the interest of consumers. When they plan, they ensure they can save every single rupee or earn every single rupee for the state government and bring power at lowest cost to the consumer. They are tightfisted in their approach.

Congress must simply do more to eliminate waste and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

I don't know if there's ever been a budget that anyone has been 100 percent happy with.

Those who pay no taxes, disposing by their votes of other people's money, have every motive to be lavish and none to economize.

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.

Government does not have basic business sense.

Fiscal conservatism means balancing budgets — not running deficits that the next generation can't afford. It means improving the efficiency of delivering services by finding innovative ways to do more with less. It means cutting taxes when possible and prudent to do so, raising them overall only when necessary to balance the budget, and only in combination with spending cuts. It means when you run a surplus, you save it; you don't squander it. And most importantly, being a fiscal conservative means preparing for the inevitable economic downturns — and by all indications, we've got one coming.

We spend millions of dollars to print this stuff (The Congressional Record). It’s all on line. We are tearing down trees to print material we do not need.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

I did not come into government to win an award as the great accountant in the sky and balance budgets.