Large Expenditure Quotes

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby, the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars. Taxpayers will be on the hook for spending that will stimulate the debt, stimulate the growth of government, but will do little to stimulate jobs or the economy.

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

...we're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.

I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

When I think about a mid-table club like Everton spending £150 million during the summer, I am lost for words.

By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.

It takes me a long time to make a big purchase.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.