Cal Thomas Quotes

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

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

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

Everything government touches turns to crap.

There’s enough fat in the federal government that if you rendered it, you could wash the world.

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

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

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.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

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

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Government is dysfunctional.

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.

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

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

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible.

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.

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

Delay has the odor of the Beltway.

If the Board of Trade or Local Government Board managed their business after the fashion of the Foreign Office and Colonial Office, you and I should deserve to be hung.

A man don't no more than get into the White House and learn where the Ice Box is than he has to get out again, then he is never any good for hard work again.