Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Social Security is a cruel hoax … unjust, unworkable … and wastefully financed.
Don't make government work like a business... it's inherently inefficient.
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
I've run my whole campaign on putting Georgians first, and I'm going to continue to do that, unlike Ms. Abrams, who wants to give the HOPE scholarship and free college tuition to those who are here illegally.
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.
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!
If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.
I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.
I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.
The government generally is just too top-heavy.
Taxpayers across the U.S. have invested hundreds of billions of dollars building our nation's infrastructure, and that investment should be protected.
We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.
Everything government touches turns to crap.
I went to public schools, which is to say publicly financed.
