Tom Fitton Quotes

If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending.

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

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

Had the investigation been left to the government, the current administration would have concealed its own mistakes and blamed its predecessors, That is not a criticism of the Bush White House. Any administration would do the same.

I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

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.'

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.

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

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.

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.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

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

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

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.

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.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

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.