Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

The American people want more from government than they are willing to pay for in taxes.

I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

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.

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

Taxpayers need to know if they are getting value for their tax dollar.

Washington Democrats see the IRS' overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.

At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.

Folks across the spectrum wants more efficient management of their tax dollars.

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?

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

To sell a new tax to the voters you have to be very specific about what it is being used for.

The American people are willing to invest their money (taxes) in things that work.

The person to protect is the American taxpayer. We deserve to be protected, not Lockheed.

The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.

European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.

The money that government spends is your money, not government's, and you know how to spend it better.

We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.

My goal is to give our taxpayers greater access and visibility into how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

We have a responsibility to be responsible stewards of tax dollars.

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.