Quotes About Responsibility

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses.

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.

Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.

I was proud of President Trump for sticking up for the American taxpayer and saying it's time for you to shoulder your burden. You are not fulfilling your promise that you made to NATO. And you need to step up to the plate.

When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars.

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.

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.

If you don't want to do your job as a U.S. Senator, then please resign your seat and stop taking taxpayer money for a job you're not doing anymore.

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

I became a conservative because I believe that caring for people means more than just spending taxpayer money; it means delivering results. It means respecting and challenging our citizens, telling them what they need to hear, not simply what they want to hear.

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

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

All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

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

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

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.