Byron Dorgan Quotes

I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.

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

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.

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

We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.

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 think it's incumbent upon elected officials to make sure that, if we're going to demand more tax money from people, that we use it in a productive manner and not just say, 'This is what we're going to use it for,' and then they find out that it was used for something else and sometimes something very frivolous.

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

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.

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

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.

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

Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

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

I know as well as anyone that the American people want to know that their hard-earned dollars are being spent wisely by government officials.

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.

The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.

Washington Democrats see the IRS' overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.

Folks across the spectrum wants more efficient management of their tax dollars.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.