Calvin Coolidge Quotes

We're going to have to control the spending of government.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

The budget is about day-to-day lives.

People know that you can't spend more than you have.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

I look at this in a very simple way: I want to bring the debt down.

We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.

How many people out there really set a budget?

Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

We are not very good out keeping out things with subsidies.

There must be some flexibility in the budget. You cannot have too much discipline.

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

A budget is simply telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn't take more from your family budget.

In the private sector, you have a budget and you stick to it.

In an economy where public spending is extremely important, the governments must spend, they must spend more but at the same time you can't afford to be reckless and do away with all kinds of fiscal prudence.

Fiscal prudence is very important.

We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.

More generally, I strongly believe in the importance of fiscal responsibility.

A two-year budget is not an ideology.

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.