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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government. -- Larry Elder
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What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed. -- Rick Scott
I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers. -- Mike Quigley
I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect. -- Sam Ewing
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
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. -- Larry Ellison
We simply can't keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don't have the money. -- John Kline
The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy. -- Jim Jordan
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
Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions. -- Bob Latta
If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law. -- Lamar Alexander
If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us? -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I don't think you expand entitlements when so many people are dependent on government and when the money the federal government is offering is going to be taken away from you after just a couple of years. -- George Pataki
Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will. -- Lysander Spooner
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped. -- Richard M. Nixon
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. -- Tony Abbott
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn. -- Harry Browne
Government is just spending too much money. -- Bob Schaffer
Government spends somebody else's money on somebody else. -- Milton Friedman
The government endangers us with our own money. -- James Cook
Money will not purchase character or good government. -- Calvin Coolidge
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government! -- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
We have the best government that money can buy. -- Mark Twain
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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. -- Ronald Reagan
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school. -- Tony Curtis
Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. -- Kim Stanley
Before we give the government any more money, show us some receipts. -- Jay Leno
Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you. -- Bill Whittle
I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine. -- Wesley Snipes
The government has no money of its own. It's all your money. -- Margaret Thatcher
Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money. -- Dan McCall
Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics -- Bradley Whitford
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money. -- Ludwig von Mises
However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers. -- George Soros
I don't get why the government is the only one that gets to print money. -- Stephen Colbert
If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it. -- Ron Paul
He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history. -- Gary North
Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory. -- Doug Casey
The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning. -- Linda Ronstadt
When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. -- Bob Dole
Thats what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money. Abortionists are government licensed hit men. -- Charley Reese
When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized. -- Charles Lindbergh
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people. -- George Will
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen. -- Grover Cleveland
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. -- Bill Gates
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. -- Stefan Molyneux
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. -- A. P. Herbert
The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice. -- James Cook
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Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government -- Leon Louw
I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support. -- Bob Hope
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government. -- Ken Buck
The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization -- Susan Jacoby
You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money. -- Michele Bachmann
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender. -- Thomas Jefferson
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. -- Jill Lepore
Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people. -- Ted Cruz
We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money. -- Carly Fiorina
People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. -- Michele Bachmann
The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them. -- Matt Taibbi
The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions. -- Dick Armey
The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government. -- Mike Crapo
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It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes. -- Florence King
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. -- Mitch McConnell
I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map. -- Neil Young
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves. -- Bernard Baruch
My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government. -- Colonel Sanders
Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies. -- Charles Platt
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. -- Milton Friedman
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on. -- Judy LaMarsh
I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes. -- George Soros
Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money! -- Joe Biden
A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo. -- David Harsanyi
They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money. -- David Saperstein
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -- Adam Smith
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. -- James Cook
Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another. -- John Stossel
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it's an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army. -- Ezra Klein
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. -- John Maynard Keynes
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency. -- Murray Rothbard
We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it." -- Joe Biden
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself. -- Stefan Molyneux
Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature. -- Ron Paul
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments. -- Seth Klarman
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes. -- Roosh V
Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products. -- John Updike
Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly. -- Ed Rendell
I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it? -- Bob Hope
As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals. -- Angela McGlowan
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system. -- Robert Duncan
We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. -- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. -- David Letterman
I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them. -- Ferdinand Marcos
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? -- Richard M. Daley
I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it. -- Eric Cantor
It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money. -- Margaret Thatcher
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. -- Peter Schiff
I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.' -- Eric Cantor
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
Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job. -- Michael Gove
Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money. -- Joseph Salerno
It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money. -- Jackie Walorski
The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money. -- Linda McQuaig
If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that. -- Michele Bachmann
Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget. -- E.C. Riegel
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. -- Voltaire
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity. -- Abraham Lincoln
If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom. -- John Stossel
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. -- Barbara Bush
When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings. -- John D. Rockefeller
If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat -- Dennis Prager

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