Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.
Ronald Reagan 01/1980
Category: Budgets, Public Spending
Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
Anthony Eden
Category: Public Spending
I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.
Gordon Brown 09/2000
On the fuel protests
Category: Public Spending
The cuts are not divisive. Too much state spending is divisive. It divides the honest saver from the profligate spender. It favours those who live for the day rather than those who provide for the morrow.
Margaret Thatcher 22/05/1990
Category: Public Spending
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
Margaret Thatcher 12/10/1979
Category: Public Spending, Taxation
Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.
Robert Peel
Category: Art of Government, Public Spending, Taxation
