News flash: The federal government is not the most…

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

— Philip Green

“The government is so efficient it often takes two people to do the work of one. Actually, more accurately, it takes twice the manpower…

— Jarod Kintz

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

— Ron Paul

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

— Martin O'Malley

People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.

— James Cook

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

— Walter E. Williams

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by…

— Ron Paul

The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn't be paying for cell phones so someone can have…

— Anonymous

The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was…

— Bill Maher

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

— John F. Kennedy

It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but…

— John McCain

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

— John Warren Kindt

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other…

— Ludwig von Mises

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

— Ralph Nader