Unnecessary Spending Quotes

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, never being in business, never really negotiating, give away for nothing things they shouldn't give away.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

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.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.

We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people.

In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I always have to have the new gadgets and stuff when they come out. I'm not really interested enough in learning how they work.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.

At least 25 percent of the money Americans spend on health care is wasted.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

Some watches I bought, I think now, 'Why the hell did I pay that much for a watch?'

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.