Peter Schuyler Quotes

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

No good can come out of sharing responsibility in the cabinet in which the irresponsible elements dominate decisions and policy.

Government does not have basic business sense.

Right after 9/11, the spigot got turned on and a fire hose of money poured out. Much of it was badly monitored and much of it was for stuff that just didn't work.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

A most powerful objection always arises to propositions of public works. It is that public undertakings are carelessly managed and much money spent to little purpose

You may think my business is to make appropriations, but it is not. It is to prevent their being made.