Sarah Palin Quotes

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.

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

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

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

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.

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

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

It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.

I know why elected officials want to spend money. It’s great. I can get a vote from you if I give you some money. OK but that doesn’t help your children. It just helps you.

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.

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

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.

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.

Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

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

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