Grant Shapps Quotes

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

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

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'm not worried about what people do in their private life. I look out for taxpayers' money.

In many cases, here we are, putting out reports that we're spending $100 million a year on, and we're telling the public, 'Oh, you don't have access to them.'

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.

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.

Every public official concerned with administering public funds owes it to all our citizens to be prepared at any time to account to the last penny of the public money placed in his hands.

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.

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars.

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.

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

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

I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called on, without investigating the causes which occasioned it.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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.

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

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

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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.

Government ... simply has no bottom line.

When efforts are made to shape policy based on budgets rather than the public good, then the needs of the people will not be met.

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.

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