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

  Leadership, Cutting, Government

  FaceBook post by Kristi Noem from Nov 18, 2010

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

  Chaka Fattah

  Blame Someone, Want, Majority

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

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• 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

  Military, Home, America

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

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

  Julie Bishop

  Giving Up, Government, Addiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Government, Decision, Environment

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

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• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

  William Wordsworth

  Power, Getting High, Waste

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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

  Nikki Haley

  Unions

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

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• 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

  Presidential, Debt, Economics

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

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• 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

  Government, Order, Death Penalty

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• 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

  Virginia, Mind, Pork

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