Top 52 Taxpayers Money Quotes
#1. We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.
George W. Bush
#2. In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.
Thomas Sowell
#3. There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.
David Cameron
#4. Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.
Bobby Scott
#5. Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
Vince Cable
#6. The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money ...
Doug Bandow
#7. The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
Tom Harkin
#8. Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.
Mark Neumann
#9. I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.
Bob Hope
#10. Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Thomas Sowell
#11. I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.
Hazel McCallion
#12. Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
Joe Jamail
#13. I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.
Mick Mulvaney
#14. Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
Tony Abbott
#15. We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what.
John Mica
#16. But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.
Maria Cantwell
#17. It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
Margaret Thatcher
#18. If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.
Mark Begich
#19. Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.
Thomas Friedman
#20. If raising money is critical to getting reelected, so is spending taxpayers' money to reward those who help get us reelected.
Congressman X
#21. I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.
Steve King
#22. I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve. It's taxpayers money that is being used there
Harry Reid
#23. The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
Milton Friedman
#25. While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
Tony Campolo
#26. Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
Bobby Scott
#27. Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#28. What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.
Michael Gove
#29. The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory. So we physicists have to learn how to engage the public so that taxpayers money is used to explore the nature of the universe.
Michio Kaku
#30. Under the California desert and subsidized by the taxpayers' money, someone had finally invented a chain letter that really worked. A very lethal chain letter.
Stephen King
#31. I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#32. I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.
Nadya Suleman
#33. We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
Marco Rubio
#34. Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few.
Mark McKinnon
#35. What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Paul Ryan
#36. If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.
Cal Thomas
#37. It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit.
David Burge
#38. To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?
John Stossel
#39. When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.
Ken Buck
#40. The tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 - and extended for two years in 2010 - in 2011 saved the richest 1.4 million taxpayers (the top 1 percent) more money than the rest of America's 140.89 million taxpayers received in total income.
Robert B. Reich
#41. We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.
Angela Merkel
#42. [Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.
William J. Clinton
#43. However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.
George Soros
#44. [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.
Zell Miller
#45. Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period.
Ronald Reagan
#46. Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
Gary Bauer
#47. Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#48. Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.
Anita Roddick
#49. I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
Rocky Anderson
#50. See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.
Dave Barry
#51. For taxpayers, however, it's [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That's why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.
Stephen Harper
#52. You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.
Michele Bachmann
