Joni Ernst Quotes

While security of national leadership is of paramount significance, expenditure on permanent civil structures at the family home of the prime minister and chief minister from public exchequer will be a burden on their conscience.

There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

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

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.

The mentality in Washington is, 'Look what our government - what our government can do for the American people.' We've got to get away from that mentality, and realize it's too expensive. We can't afford it.

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

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

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.

I am decidedly opposed to the people's money being used to pay the fiddler ... He that dances should always pay the fiddler.

I don't take lightly ever putting the taxpayer on the line to support an institution.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

For eight long years, the Obamas spent our tax dollars for a lavish jet-setting lifestyle.

The people of Montana understand that you will never be able to take enough money from them and give it to the government to quench that thirst. The government will always spend more money.

We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That's why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers' expense, must end.

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

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

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

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?