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Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees. -- Antony Gormley
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. -- Chester A. Arthur
Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer. -- Lucy Powell
For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money. -- Nicholas Kristof
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. -- Richard Flanagan
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 to appropriate a dollar of the public money. -- Davy Crockett
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff! -- Jennifer Granholm
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. -- Martin Van Buren
Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time. -- Roger Ailes
I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money. -- Nicholas Kristof
Less money for public media means less access to the arts. -- Nellie McKay
Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates. -- Ludwig von Mises
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor. -- Thomas Paine
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. -- Ira Glass
Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation. -- Charles P. Kindleberger
I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money. -- Martin Shkreli
I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. -- Thomas Dewey
Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public. -- Gary Ackerman
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen. -- Grover Cleveland
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. -- Ben Jonson
There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics. -- Chelsea Manning
The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack. -- Dave Freudenthal
The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money. -- Henry Ford
I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards. -- Michael Jackson
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. -- Benjamin Graham
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. -- Pete Hamill
In fact, not only do I support eliminating soft money, but I support full public financing for campaigns. -- Barbara Lee
Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money. -- Ayad Allawi
The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. -- William Jennings Bryan
If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity, -- Margaret Trudeau
The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service. -- James Cash Penney
I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money. -- George Michael
Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot. -- Sadie Frost
The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper.And it remains on paper. -- Edwin Lefevre
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. -- Dave Barry
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money. -- Phyllis Schlafly
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan
We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it." -- Joe Biden
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. -- Andrew Mellon
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money. -- Margaret Thatcher
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. -- W. H. Auden
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. -- Andrew Jackson
All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play. -- Christopher Atkins
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed -- Anita Roddick
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. -- Calvin Coolidge
While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures. -- Henry Waxman
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. -- John Prebble
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. -- Dave Grohl
Public employees contribute real value for the benefit of all citizens. Public-union bosses collect real money from all taxpayers for the benefit of a few. -- Mark McKinnon
Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers. -- Pauline Kael
If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest. -- Mark Begich
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. -- Thomas Jefferson
Anybody who knows the public school teacher world (knows) there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do. -- Kevin Sorbo
there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it. -- Kathleen Winsor
Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced. -- Jim Rowe
I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free. -- Elton John
For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection. -- Faith Sullivan
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. -- Ronald Reagan
For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money. -- George W. Bush
And if we make the process political, if we start to make it personal, we're actually going to frustrate good public policy, in terms of managing this money. -- Michael Chertoff
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money. -- Livy
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform. -- Euripides
Lots of donations and money go to rescue dogs and cats, however the public does not understand that every cow, pig and chicken needs to be rescued too. -- Nathan Runkle
We're throwing money down a rat hole drain of public education! We lead the world in public education spending. We lead the world in getting the least for it. -- Rush Limbaugh
Public Broadcasting is a sandbox for the rich. The NEA and the HEH are simply enclaves of the left using your money to propagandize your children against your values. -- Newt Gingrich
I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do. -- Hillary Clinton
In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona. -- Russ Feingold
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither. -- Calvin Coolidge

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