Quotes About Government

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

We've had a Congress that's spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!

There's nothing crazy about not letting our companies bring their money back into their country.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations.

There's not as much money in Washington as they're used to be!

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's taxpayer's money that's being used there.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

The government endangers us with our own money.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out