Mary Roach Quotes

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.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

Every time we spend a federal dollar, what we're doing is we're pulling money out of somebody's pocket, and we're giving it to somebody else.

I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

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.

I'm not going to deprive my constituents of money that's out there.

Venezuela’s state oil company routinely spends more on social programs then it does on exploration and production.

I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.

We must raise resources by curbing wasteful expenditure. That's why I resolved that the hooter culture, where VIPs are provided red-beacon cars at taxpayers' expense, must end.

Only in Washington do you hear a budget increase described as a cut.

What would be better is to discipline our lawmakers in Sacramento so that they do not spend more money than they have.

Every dime spent is a political decision made.

Party conferences don't purchase fighter jets.

I know why elected officials want to spend money. It’s great. I can get a vote from you if I give you some money. OK but that doesn’t help your children. It just helps you.

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another

Congress is not an ATM

Cost effectiveness and effectiveness are not always the same thing in government.

Sometimes Republicans want to cut the social welfare programs and yet they ask for billions and billions more for the Defense Department. I don’t take that approach.

As quickly as you start spending Federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.

Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'