"Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels."
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"I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14."
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"This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending. They order me to spend."
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"What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously."
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"I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform."
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"Hiding spending does not reduce spending."
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"We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington."
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"Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in."
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"A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion."
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"Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending."
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"As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget."
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"We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq."
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"Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol."
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"Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit."
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"It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money."
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"I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money."
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