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I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.

— Thomas Massie

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've lived so frugally for so long. I have to have that financial security or the world feels out of control for me.

— DJ Qualls

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

— Linda Evans

Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

— Suze Orman

Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

— Giles Andreae

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

— Chuck Grassley

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

— William Shatner

If there is wasteful spending, I will not support it.

— Tom Graves

What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.

— Mark Billingham

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

— Charles B. Rangel

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

— Taylor Kitsch