TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
I believe that the president's (Bush) leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that's completely inconsistent with the world… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
American taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill for the overwhelming costs of amnesty. Under current law, once 11 million illegal… — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This… — Michael J. Boskin Copy Share Image
We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three… — Peter Lilley Copy Share Image
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
“These bills include hundreds of thousands of economic migrants who, after years in the UK, probably still can’t believe that British taxpayers… — David Craig Copy Share Image
Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My administration will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale… — Julie Bishop Copy Share Image
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State… — Gaetano Salvemini Copy Share Image
When I think about the folks who are out there at home tonight watching... They know that this country is not respected… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the… — Tom L. Johnson Copy Share Image
American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
It's really important, obviously, for people to realize that it is a very small percentage, only 1 percent of our total economy,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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