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You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

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.

There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.

People feel good about giving money to Greenpeace.