Carter Glass Quotes

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks.

Too many people on the Left think that, when you move a chunk of money away from people for entitlements, that the money magically reappears and that discretionary spending will be unaffected.

People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

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.

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

Any government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

I said to my liberal friend that we are fundamentally the same. I spend money like its my money and you spend money like its my money.

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

We elect Democrats to Congress to give us stuff. We elect Republicans to the White House so that we don't have to pay for it.

The Democratic party favors low tariffs and no surplus in the treasury; but when its opponents, in their eagerness to favor the manufacturing interest keep the tariffs so high as to accumulate a surplus in the treasury, our policy is to return the money, as nearly as may be, to the people from whom it ought not to have been taken.

If you are a Social Democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, taxation is the finest expression for what politics really is.

When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Government is just spending too much money.