Best Taxpayer Quotations
124 Taxpayer quotes by 103 unique authors
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Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 - now…
— Michael Moore
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The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a…
— Richard M. Nixon
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We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax…
— Grover Norquist
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I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying…
— Grover Norquist
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Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97…
— Grover Norquist
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I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.
— Henry Paulson
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As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.
— Rick Perry
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
— Ronald Reagan
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Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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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 stop playing games…
— John Sununu
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I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.
— Scott Walker
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My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
— Scott Walker
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I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like…
— Elizabeth Warren
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My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.
— William Weld
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protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage…
— Naomi Klein
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The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
— Michael Pollan
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Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend…
— Grover Norquist
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The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.
— Grover Norquist
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Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local…
— Grover Norquist
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Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce…
— John Kline
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If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the…
— Kirsten Gillibrand
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Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds…
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.
— Paul Tonko
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