Quotes About Government

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

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

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money to fight the enemies Congress just armed.

Money will not purchase character or good government.

If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.