P. D. James Quotes

The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn't be paying for cell phones so someone can have a social life. I just don't think it's appropriate.

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.

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

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

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.

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.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

It's easier to sell cotton candy than it is to sell broccoli to somebody, but the broccoli is better for you, and the same thing with a limited government.

I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.