Government Pay Quotes

The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.

Leave me alone. I'm Carl Albert, Speaker of the House ... I just got you raises.

Honorariums are really dishonorariums. So long as they continue, public trust in Congress will sink even below its minimal level today.... Public officials should have only one paymaster: the Government. When the Government pays too little, the temptation to find other paymasters becomes far harder to resist.

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

Frankly, no issue is worth shutting down the government and denying pay to those committed to public service.

President Bush earned $400,000 for his job as president last year. That's not really that much for being president when you think about it. But President Bush, he doesn't do it for the money, he does it for the eight months of vacation every year.

You wouldn’t need term limits if these [political] jobs don’t pay anything.

I didn't know when Parliament started to pay my wages.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

I don't think congressmen and senators ought to be getting pensions when nobody else does.