Al Sharpton Quotes

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Congress is not an ATM

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

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the end of the month.

I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.

In peace and war it's always money.

I don't think the approach is to simply give them [the Indian tribes] money, because too much money has disappeared in Indian country, too much has been mismanaged. The history of Indian country is the disappearance of money.

Borrowed money, even when owing to a nation by another nation, should be repaid. They hired the money, didn't they? Let them pay it.

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

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

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.

There is a seeming impropriety in leaving any set of men without control to put their hand into the public coffers, to take out money to put in their pockets.

Congress gave the President a blank check to wage an undefined war against an undefined enemy for an undefined period of time. We shouldn’t have given him that authority.

How do you lose track of 12 billion dollars of cash? Send it to Iraq. 360 tons of cash. We know how much it weighed but we don’t know where it went.

Every dime spent is a political decision made.