Mike Pence Quotes

Staff expands to fill the office space available.... The basic obligation of Congress is to the tax payers, not to its own creature comforts.

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

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

Homeland Security money ought not to be allocated on a pork barrel basis.

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

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.

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

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 has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

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.

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.

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economically administered.

If you think that my job is to rob the Federal Treasury on your behalf, you have voted for the wrong man

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until someone is asked to pay the bill.

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.