Taxpayers Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Thinking, Usual, Dollars

  "Elizabeth Warren: Bank Bonuses Leave Me “Speechless”, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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.

  William Weld

  Money, Cutting, Government

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• The Democratic Party supports criminals and Islamic terrorists but has no sympathy for taxpayers.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Islamic, Support

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.112, Crown Forum

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• ...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball

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• We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Issues

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• American taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill for the overwhelming costs of amnesty. Under current law, once 11 million illegal immigrants receive probationary status, they will immediately have access to federal benefits like Social Security and Obamacare coverage. If we thought we had a problem with government spending before, just wait.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Government, Law, Obamacare

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• Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged U.S. citizens.

  J. James Exon

  Cutting, Upset, Immigration

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• The question taxpayers keep asking is 'why should we pay for services for those who have broken the law to get here?' They should not, nor should they be forced to be the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and School District of the world. This is evidenced in every poll I have seen indicating that every ethnic group is opposed to illegal immigration and supports enforcement of the law.

  Michael D. Antonovich

  School, Organization, Law

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• All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Numbers

  William J. "Bill" Clinton's State of the Union address, millercenter.org. January 24, 1995.

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• [Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Years, People

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995”, Government Printing Office

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• We need to upgrade and modernize America`s infrastructure.Our budget is going to have to figure out how to balance those priorities and pay for it and our big goal is to leverage the private sector dollars as much as possible so that the public taxpayer isn`t paying for all of this.

  Paul Ryan

  America, Goal, Priorities

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

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• protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Race, Government

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• Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

  Henry Paulson

  Goal, Architecture, Financial

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• I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

  Henry Paulson

  Brother, Lines, Appropriate

  "Investors Feel The Pain of Lehman Bros. Collapse". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 16, 2008.

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• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Wall, Feet, President

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

  Ann Coulter

  Art, Crazy, Mean

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right”, p.16, Crown Forum

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• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  Gail Collins

  Cutting, College, Government

  "The Value of College". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Can I say that I think it should be against the law for one state to use taxpayer money to try to bribe businesses in another state to move? Which then causes the target state to use taxpayer dollars to try to bribe the businesses to stay.

  Gail Collins

  Moving, Thinking, Law

  "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iraq, Debtors, Helping

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• They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

  Chris Christie

  Health, Years, Reform

  Chris Christie's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

  Eric Cantor

  Recovery, Yesterday, President

  "Cantor: Stimulus 'not a success story'" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. June 9, 2009.

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• While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Doe, Wasted Time

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

  Herman Cain

  Class, People, Giving

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• There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  Gary Bauer

  America, People, Mailboxes

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