A Quote by Donald Rumsfeld

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Dollar Each Earned Federal Hard Taxpayer Treat

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Donald Rumsfeld
American - Politician
Born: July 9, 1932

Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as the taxpayer must do to earn it in the first place.

Mick Mulvaney

If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

Lucy Stone

Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Abraham Lincoln

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Theodore Roosevelt

A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.

Evan Esar

The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury...and has created out of nothing a ... debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.

Wright Patman

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

Paul Newman

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

Ajit Pai

One of Trump's reforms is to limit the time that workers can use on the job at taxpayer expense working on union activities. What does this have to do with public service? So taxpayers have to pay overcompensated federal employees while they work on union activities so they can get even more taxpayer money.

Stephen Moore

I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.

Gary Johnson

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's taxpayer's money that's being used there.

Harry Reid

I won a lot of money in UFC. I earned that money. The money wasn't given to me as a present. I earned every dollar of it.

Mirko Cro Cop

As the dollar's exchange value declines, so will the value of dollar-denominated financial instruments, regardless of how many bonds the Federal Reserve purchases.

Paul Craig Roberts

For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn't sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time.