Government Funds Quotes

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

As quickly as you start spending Federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

We, in a sense, are taking back Uncle Sam's checkbook.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it.

Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.

Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

... the Social Security trust fund is not spare money; it is spoken for.

One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I urged you and pleaded with you that, so far as the Church and its membership were concerned, we do not soil our hands with the bounteous outpouring of funds which the government was giving unto us. I renew that plea now. My brethren and sisters, for the sake of the government which we love, for the sake of the government which we believe was divinely inspired, be honest with it. Be honest, just ordinarily gold honest. That is all I ask.

When you steal from the government, you steal from yourself.

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.'

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest priority.

That's the very essence of pork barrelism, when you give a huge lump sum to a person and say, 'Well, tell us what you want it for, but you are free to decide where to spend it on.'

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.

Do you know that all of the money that we are spending, that the government is spending, must come from you? The government has no great pile of gold to which it can go to get what it gives you. The government has not one cent that it does not take from your pockets. Do not imagine, do not believe, do not go on the theory that you are not to pay this bill, unless the fundamentals of our government are to be overturned.

I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.

Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right [individually] to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

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

... an auction of the treasury.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.