Taxpayers Quotes · Page 3

I just want the state fixed, and I just want to do the right thing for the taxpayers.

— Bruce Rauner

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

— Hillary Clinton

I have bought my flat myself and never charged a penny of it to the taxpayers.

— Dennis Skinner

...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

— Jason Kidd

I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

— Mick Mulvaney

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

— Barbara Ann Radnofsky

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

— Herbert Hoover

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

— John F. Kennedy

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle…

— Scott Walker

Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in…

— Scott Walker

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste…

— Tony Abbott

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's…

— Harry Reid

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military…

— Jill Stein

We cannot allow employers in Germany to pay hourly wages of 50 cents and shift the remainder of the burden to the…

— Angela Merkel

See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only…

— Dave Barry

We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with…

— Kevin Brady

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow…

— Vince Cable

When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of…

— Barack Obama

One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie…

— Walter E. Williams

I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at,…

— Stephen Harper

See, locking people up who present no real danger to society isn't just unfair to those people and those who love them.…

— Kat Timpf

Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this…

— Sean Quinn

The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall…

— Bill Maher

I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained…

— Prince Andrew

The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be…

— Thomas Sowell

If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income…

— Robert H. Frank

“That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact of your relationship to the…

— Cory Doctorow

What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the…

— Murray Rothbard

It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of…

— Boris Johnson

In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice,…

— Peter Maurin

Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have…

— Chuck Grassley

I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for…

— Piper Kerman

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

— George Osborne

I'm not worried about what people do in their private life. I look out for taxpayers' money.

— Rob Ford

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

— Bill Nye

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

— Henry Paulson

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

— Bobby Scott

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

— John McCain

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

— Ronald Reagan

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

— John Warren Kindt