Top 1200 Taxpayer Money Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

In addition to being a terrorist recruiting tool, Guantanamo is a huge drain on taxpayer dollars.

Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.

After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.

We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government.

As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

Contrary to what most people think, bank money is much more important than state money. In Greece, for example, bank money makes up 84.26% of the total money supply.

I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

With each new appropriations bill Congress considers, I have to ask myself, 'Is this a good way to spend taxpayer dollars?'

Concentrate on your money. Try to hold your paper. It takes money to make money, so save your money, opportunites come.

Official time is not fair to the government or the taxpayer and works solely to the benefit of labor unions and employees who serve as its representative or steward.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.

I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I've acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it's just piling up.

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.

The U.S. government should not spend a single taxpayer dollar to teach children to dislike their country.

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

Let me make it very clear. There are no taxpayer funds going to the Adani mine.

This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

From day one, my focus as a new-breed appropriator was to look for areas where we could save taxpayer dollars.

The President should not be able to enrich himself and his family at taxpayer expense, period.

Once people know that you can spend the money and that you're willing to spend the money and that you're set up to spend the money in politics, then your threat to spend the money is as convincing as actually spending it.

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows - but only your attitude toward money.

My goal is to give our taxpayers greater access and visibility into how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have the death spiral, and I think particularly premiums in the individual market are going through the roof. Republicans want what's best for the country, but I think they're not fixing the death spiral of Obamacare. They're going to subsidize it with a lot of taxpayer money. So, characterizing something as mean or generous I think goes to people's motives, and I think it is sort of why we have such an angry country now. We think that people have ill motives.

If you have "needing money" in your vibration, then you will keep attracting needing money. You have to find a way of being happy NOW, feeling good NOW, and being in joy NOW, without the money, because those great feelings are how you will feel with the money. Money doesn't bring happiness - but HAPPINESS BRINGS MONEY.

Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.

Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

Like many other Americans, I'm tired of the U.S. taxpayer paying for foreign wars, especially when the countries we defend have raked in huge oil profits.

The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

We don't need subsidized corporate welfare schemes that rely on endless bailouts from the taxpayer.

New Labour has deregulated, liberalised and privatised - but every time the private sector fails it is the taxpayer who pays.

I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

By ending congressional taxpayer-funded pensions, we will take one more step toward draining the swamp in Washington.

Our job in Congress is to serve the American people, and not enrich ourselves with special taxpayer-funded benefits.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

If you've got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who's got the money and make money. There's two pieces to it: talent and money.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Congress must simply do more to eliminate waste and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

I've never done anything for money, and that is why I got money. When you do stuff for money, you never get money.

Without American leadership at the U.N., countries just continue to talk and socialize and spend taxpayer dollars.

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.