Mike Quigley Quotes

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

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

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

The Pentagon says that they are too big to be audited. That’s an insult. They spend $700 billion a year. They need to be audited.

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

There's no reason why the public shouldn't be able to see how billions of pounds are being spent on their behalf.

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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

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.

The American public is rightfully asking, 'Hey, all those funds are coming out of my pocket, so I want to know where they're going.'

I see it as very important that taxpayers have access to all financial transactions.

You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that.

No, I was pleased that it is possible for somebody who makes full disclosure as I've done, not only of the contributors, but also how the money is spent.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

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.

Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.

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.

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.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.