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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
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens. -- Rick Perry
It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet. -- Raul Ruiz
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It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion. -- Eric Cantor
If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. -- Grover Norquist
Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute. -- Burt Rutan
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
President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs. -- John Sununu
The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see. -- Carly Fiorina
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
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer. -- Rand Paul
Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V. -- Buzz Aldrin
When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough. -- John McCain
I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource. -- Nadya Suleman
There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money. -- Andrew Mitchell
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
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files. -- Rocky Anderson
It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,. -- Anthony Weiner
What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions. -- Mitch McConnell

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