Wasteful Spending Quotes:

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

- Kristi Noem

source: FaceBook post by Kristi Noem from Nov 18, 2010

topic: Cutting, Government, Class, Freshman, Wasteful Spending

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

- Chaka Fattah

source: "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.

topic: Want, Majority, Blame, Wasteful Spending, Blame Someone

From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

- George McGovern

source: George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

topic: Sex, Military, War, Military Spending, Wasteful Spending

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

- Julie Bishop

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Giving Up, Government, Addiction, Wasteful Spending

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

source: Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.10, Basic Books

topic: Government, Decision, Environment, Undisciplined, Wasteful Spending

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

- William Wordsworth

topic: Flower, Sleep, Heart, Power And Control, Superhuman Powers

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

- Nikki Haley

source: "Decency takes a beating along with 'Nikki Haley' pinata". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2012.

topic: Unions, Wasteful Spending

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

source: Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

topic: Presidential, Debt, Economics, Wasteful Spending, Speeding

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

topic: Government, Order, Death Penalty, Wasteful Spending, Small Government

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

topic: Virginia, Mind, Pork, Wasteful Spending, Chaplains