Ron Paul Quotes

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.

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

For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"

If you spend your own money on yourself, you care how much you spend and how well you spend it. If you spend your own money on someone else, you care how much you spend, but you don't care how well it is spent. If you spend someone else's money on yourself, you don't care how much you spend, but you do care how well it is spent. And finally, if you spend someone else's money on someone else, you don't care how much you spend, and you don't care how well it is spent. That is government.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

The Democrats want government to do the spending. Senator McCain wants families to do the spending.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.