Taxpayers Quotes · Page 3

Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers.

— Ron Paul

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

— Herbert Hoover

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Jason Kidd

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

— Dennis Skinner

My goal is to give our taxpayers greater access and visibility into how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

— Ryan Frazier

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

— Steve King

The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money...

— Doug Bandow

It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in…

— John McCain

Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot…

— John Sweeney

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars…

— George Soros

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an…

— Marco Rubio

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs…

— Tony Campolo

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 measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have…

— Tony Abbott

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social…

— Ralph Nader

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility,…

— John Mica

We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities…

— Donald Trump

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their…

— John Kasich

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

— Vince Cable

Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if…

— Barack Obama

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's…

— John Sununu

Here's my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food…

— Dave Barry

Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any…

— Robert Reich

Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.

— Georges Bernanos

Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.

— Anita Roddick

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Politically motivated lawsuits and prosecutions cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

— Richard Grenell

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

— Larry Niven

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

— Ric Keller

American taxpayers expect and deserve to know where their hard-earned money is going and how it is being used.

— Mike Johnson

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

— Mitt Romney

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

— Sandy Adams

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

— Anonymous

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous.

— Mike Rogers

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

— Jim Ramstad

I see it as very important that taxpayers have access to all financial transactions.

— Cary Kennedy

Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

— Lamar S. Smith

Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.

— Timothy Noah

Richmond liberals have figured out too many ways to separate taxpayers from their hard-earned money.

— Glenn Youngkin