Carly Fiorina Quotes

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

Whether you're a veteran or a millennial, it's hard to argue that big government has solved your problems efficiently, if at all.

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.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

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.

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

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

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.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.