Red Skelton Quotes

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

When the Budget has once been approved by the President and transmitted to Congress, it is his budget estimate and no officer or official of the War Department would have any right to come up here and attempt to get a single dollar more than is contained in that estimate .

George W. Bush is a big spender…. When Congress sends up a bill with big. fat, crackling pork, he says, “Where’s the barbecue sauce?”

If you think that my job is to rob the Federal Treasury on your behalf, you have voted for the wrong man

The federal government is currently operating on a budget passed in the dead of night just before Christmas. It comprised three massive documents, ran to a staggering 3,296 pages, weighed in at a hefty 43 pounds, and had a price tag of $650 billion. Congress had about three hours to look at it before voting on it.

Staff expands to fill the office space available.... The basic obligation of Congress is to the tax payers, not to its own creature comforts.

I cannot consent to act the part of a mere financier, to become a contriver of taxes, a dealer of loans, a seeker of resources for the purposes of supporting useless baubles, of increasing the number of idle and dissipated members of the community, of fattening contractors, pursers, and agents, and of introducing … patronage, corruption, and rottenness which you so justly execrate.

I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.

It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money!

Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

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

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

The reason Congress hasn't balanced the budget is that the sky hasn't fallen lately.

With this bill we are waste deep in manure instead of being neck deep. Hooray I guess.

I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

If Washington were a factory, it would manufacture spending.

We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.