Kane Quotes

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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

I am firmly of the view that the Missouri citizens deserve transparent and accountable government, especially in the expenditure of their tax dollars.

The IRS isn't the only agency using taxpayer dollars for big bonuses.

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

The American people expect their government to manage their hard-earned tax dollars responsibly.

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

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

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

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.

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.

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

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

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.

It is necessary to watch people in Washington all the time to keep them from unnecessary expenditure of money.

From now on, the government has to make its accounts public on a quarterly basis.

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

Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.

I'm not worried about what people do in their private life. I look out for taxpayers' money.

The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.

With each new appropriations bill Congress considers, I have to ask myself, 'Is this a good way to spend taxpayer dollars?'

Taxpayers should be able to see where their money is being spent and what impact it is having.

We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.