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To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. -- Jim Gibbons
I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater. -- Milton Friedman
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The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates. -- John McLaughlin
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. -- Tim Murphy
Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste. -- George Allen
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government. -- Mitt Romney
Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending. -- Timothy Griffin
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. -- H. L. Mencken
We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry. -- Jay Weatherill
I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have. -- Ed Royce
I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste. -- Gwynne Shotwell
Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption. -- Sherrod Brown
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. -- Thomas Jefferson
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. -- Tom Coburn
There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved. -- Chuck Grassley
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does. -- Tony Campolo
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. -- Bob Riley
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. -- Chris Chocola
I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If you accumulate debts and waste your money, that's, of course, a disaster. -- Jeremy Grantham
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. -- Tony Abbott
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill. -- Tristram Stuart
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous. -- James Cook
If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott. -- George Osborne
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen. -- Grover Cleveland
It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments. -- Margaret Thatcher
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return. -- Doug Casey

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