Ilhan Omar Quotes

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

We need to deliver efficient, transparent government.

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

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

Our national leaders could learn some good habits and important lessons from city hall to take the place of the various gimmicks being used in Washington to duck federal budget responsibility.

I did not come into government to win an award as the great accountant in the sky and balance budgets.

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.

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we would find ourselves with a much larger deficit than we have today.

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.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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.

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

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

In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

Our system of keeping the federal government's books is a monument to the creativity of mankind ... We've cut government spending for 15 years in a row, and yet have spent more money in each of those years.

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

Economy in government does not mean spending little ... It means spending what you have and spending it well.

If you undertake to divide all these appropriations and have many committees where there should be but one, you will enter upon a path of extravagance that you cannot foresee … until we find the Treasury of the country bankrupt.

Congress is not an ATM

Actively search for spending bills that I can veto as a sign of … financial stewardship.

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

I know as well as anyone that the American people want to know that their hard-earned dollars are being spent wisely by government officials.

The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.