Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

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.

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

It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economically administered.

Government does not have basic business sense.

Congress is not an ATM

Actively search for spending bills that I can veto as a sign of … financial stewardship.

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

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

If you think that my job is to rob the Federal Treasury on your behalf, you have voted for the wrong man

You may think my business is to make appropriations, but it is not. It is to prevent their being made.

Government ... simply has no bottom line.

I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.

One thing that Washington D.C. does not do well is cut spending.

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

Sometimes you have to make tough decisions to hold the line on spending.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

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.

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

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

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.