Difficult Quote by Donald Rumsfeld

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.

— Rashida Tlaib

News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.

— Jon Ossoff

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…

— Richard M. Nixon

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend…

— Hillary Clinton

We won't accomplish our goals by creating a new federal bureaucracy or by bribing states with their own taxpayers' money.

— Betsy DeVos

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

— Jim Cooper

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

— Richard Cohen

Federal dollars and resources come with so much red tape that state and local experts can't use that funding for initiatives that are working…

— Thom Tillis

The idea of ensuring that federal research dollars should be reasonably spread around is an arguably useful goal. But it should be done per…

— Bill Foster