Liz Truss Quotes

Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.

I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

Tell Congress to go home and make an honest living instead of riding on the backs of the taxpayers.

Base closings [are] the most atrocious waste of money I have ever seen in my life.

The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.

When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret Thatcher handbags, and I'll bang it on the table and demand my money back from the government for past bad services.

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.

This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before Eagle-Net wastes any more money.

This is other people's money that Washington is appropriating and spending.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

People dislike government spending in the abstract, but the like government spending when they see the benefit.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury

There's nothing like spending other peoples’ money

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right [individually] to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

The last thing you want is a group of senators who just lent you seven and a half billion dollars to sit back and go, 'Look at these jerks and how they're using taxpayer money.'

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

The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.

Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.

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.

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans loved the CBO because it tells the conservatives the thing that matters most to them which is how much is it going to cost taxpayers.

It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.

The public understands that the government is broke, but many still don't want to cut programs they enjoy or depend on.