Alex Pareene
Alex Pareene

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

Ander Crenshaw
Ander Crenshaw

I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.

Andrew P. Harris
Andrew P. Harris

Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.

Arthur Laffer
Arthur Laffer

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.

Arthur Laffer
Arthur Laffer

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

Ben Quayle
Ben Quayle

I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave.

Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink, and possibly eliminate government programs.

Charles Boustany
Charles Boustany

American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.

Chris Chocola
Chris Chocola

Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency.