Will Rogers Quotes

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

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.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Federal spending is atrocious.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.