Quotes About Wasteful Spending

#1. I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.

Thomas Massie

#2. I'll govern for the good of the governed.
I'll make sure every citizen is properly educated and doctored.
I'll cease wasteful spending and ease the burden on the poor through redistribution of land and goods and taxation.

Erika Johansen

#3. We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government.

Kevin McCarthy

#4. The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Julie Bishop

#5. Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce our debt in a balanced, responsible way.

Ann McLane Kuster

#6. 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

#7. As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Jeff Miller

#8. Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

Jay Sekulow

#9. A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

Peter Blair Henry

#10. The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

Matt Salmon

#11. Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Chaka Fattah

#12. I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.

Nikki Haley

#13. It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services ... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?

Laura Miller

#14. The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

Argus Hamilton

#15. We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Herbert Hoover

#16. If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Blaise Pascal

#17. Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources.

Jose Angel Gurria

#18. But he was also shrewd instead of wise, mannerly instead of kind, and ambitious instead of strong. I

Amy Harmon

#19. You know what I think? I think everyone should be able, just once, to make an inanimate object come to life and be his pal. Like an orange. Or a hammer.

Dave Eggers

#20. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the gift of God?

Thomas Jefferson

#21. The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government.

Michael Parenti

#22. From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

George McGovern

#23. One may have preferences, but why exclusions?

Madame Du Chatelet

#24. I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks.
Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and hunters, the real evil was lack of reading time. If they all read more they might freak out less. And if I was going to live forever I was going to have to start a reading list.

Alyxandra Harvey

#25. Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise ... a little nuts and really funny.

Mick LaSalle

#26. Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.

Timothy Griffin

#27. All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

Caitlin Moran

#28. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

#29. As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#31. A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to younger workers who fear that more and more money will be taken from their paychecks to fund another generation's spending spree.

Susan Brooks

#32. Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

Jack Ma

#33. I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

John Cleese