Expenses Quote by Ron Paul

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

— Margaret Thatcher

If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

— Gilbert Highet

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

— Jesse Jackson

Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.

— Jill Stein

The last thing you want is a group of senators who just lent you seven and a half billion dollars to sit back and…

— Sergio Marchionne

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...

— Thomas Sowell

High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the…

— Thomas Sowell

I've been a politician and so I'm sometimes cynical about what politicians won't do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no…

— Allan Boesak

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that…

— Zac Goldsmith

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

— Terry Pratchett