Phil Gingrey Quotes

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

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.

Congress is not an ATM

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.

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

Congress: Bingo with billions.

When the Budget has once been approved by the President and transmitted to Congress, it is his budget estimate and no officer or official of the War Department would have any right to come up here and attempt to get a single dollar more than is contained in that estimate .

If you think that my job is to rob the Federal Treasury on your behalf, you have voted for the wrong man

Government ... simply has no bottom line.

While we have appropriated money year after year to expand the agencies the agencies, departments, and the White House staff, we have neglected to staff ourselves adequately to meet our oversight responsibilities.

Government does not have basic business sense.

The Pentagon says that they are too big to be audited. That’s an insult. They spend $700 billion a year. They need to be audited.

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

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

The IRS isn't the only agency using taxpayer dollars for big bonuses.

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

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.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

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

Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

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.

Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.