Quotes About Government

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

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.