Quotes About Government

I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.

Since his election, President Trump has made clear that he and his administration will be focusing on ensuring that the government is a smart buyer, getting the most for the taxpayer's dollar.

The overwhelming majority of new mortgages are issued with government backing in a highly concentrated securitization market. That leaves us with both potential taxpayer liability and systemic risk.

I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution.

New Labour has deregulated, liberalised and privatised - but every time the private sector fails it is the taxpayer who pays.

The President should not be able to enrich himself and his family at taxpayer expense, period.

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

The IRS isn't the only agency using taxpayer dollars for big bonuses.

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

Let me make it very clear. There are no taxpayer funds going to the Adani mine.

Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.

Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.

It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.

If taxpayer money were limitless, we wouldn't need a budget at all.

I have bought my flat myself and never charged a penny of it to the taxpayers.

As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

Budgets don't balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.