Marco Rubio Quotes

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

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

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.

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

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.'

Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts.

People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.

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.

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

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

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.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers money, only Congressmen can; and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.