Being Quote by Liz Truss

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing…

— Margaret Hodge

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

— DeWitt Wallace

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are…

— Chester A. Arthur

“No politician or party favours waste and inefficiency, and every government tries to reduce both--but tax cuts on the promise of ending the gravy…

— Alex Himelfarb

I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the…

— Margaret Atwood

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a…

— Vince Cable

Political shenanigans come and go, yet often what feels like a big deal in Westminster fails to get a mention on the news. As…

— Grant Shapps

“if your government isn’t wasteful, you’re spending too much time fighting government waste.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

That's why we don't give the government extra money as conservatives because government generally stinks at spending money. That's why!

— Dan Bongino

I hate the idea of anyone thinking that I don't put a lot of thought about the cost to taxpayers. I make our ministers…

— Jacinda Ardern

Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don't care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on…

— Dominic Cummings

If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.

— Irwin Schiff