Overspending Quotes

As a community we have been living beyond our means…. We have been living at a rate which is simply not justified by the amounts of goods and services we are producing.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The real problem with the government is not the deficit; it is that the government spends too much money.

We sincerely believed that we don't tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.

China, Japan, and Asia in general have been happy to hold U.S. debt instruments in recent decades, but they will not prop up our spending habits forever…. The greatest threat facing America today is not terrorism, or foreign economic competition, or illegal immigration. The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

The purchase of unnecessary military hardware is undoubtedly the most wasteful element in American government.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

We can't continue to spend where there isn't any money.

You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.

You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.

The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.