Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

We've got to look at waste, fraud, and abuse across the board.

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

Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the public's trust.

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.

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.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

No one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

… procuring offices for persons who were unfit, and unworthy of them … squandering away the public treasure

We're doing a lot about corruption... it takes a long time and we are doing the right measures. It took 20 years for the system under successive military governments to become so corrupt, so it will take time to bring it under control.

State and local government are more corrupt and less efficient than the federal government.