Administration Quote by Tom Coburn

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required…

— Anonymous

It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.

— Mitt Romney

Each year Citizens Against Government Waste releases the 'Congressional Pig Book.' Outrage over spending for shrimp on treadmills, combating Goth culture studies, bridges to…

— Katie Pavlich

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years.…

— Mitch Daniels

Congress must simply do more to eliminate waste and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign…

— Robert H. Frank

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

— Rob Lowe

“Year after year goes by, and nothing gets better. All we do is argue and debate and procrastinate. Any decent idea is amended to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Our number one agenda is to get money out of politics, to drain the swamp, but not in the way that Trump said. He…

— Cenk Uygur

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste…

— Antonis Samaras

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

— George Allen