Tom Price Quotes

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

I'm gonna watch the taxpayers' money like I was elected to do.

We represent the people's money, and we have to be good stewards of that.

Government ... simply has no bottom line.

We need to deliver efficient, transparent government.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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

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.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

Under no circumstances will I allow expenditures upon works not clearly national.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of public moneys.

Every public official concerned with administering public funds owes it to all our citizens to be prepared at any time to account to the last penny of the public money placed in his hands.

Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink, and possibly eliminate government programs.

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.

In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

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 think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.

I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

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.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.