Scott Garrett Quotes

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

A most powerful objection always arises to propositions of public works. It is that public undertakings are carelessly managed and much money spent to little purpose

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

For too long it was assumed that you could completely separate out flows of money from responsibilities and accountabilities in service delivery. This flawed assumption is central to understanding many of the failures.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

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

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

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

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economically administered.

Homeland Security money ought not to be allocated on a pork barrel basis.

In Congress we face the possibility of radical cuts based on nothing save grand compromises over what parochial interests need to be satisfied.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of public moneys.

We in Congress have the money but we don’t have the expertise.

I'm gonna watch the taxpayers' money like I was elected to do.

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 ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.

There's no federal government agency that ought to be immune from having to explain the potential financial impact of an action they've taken or intend to take. We deserve the specifics.

We are not going to use money from the people of the state of Missouri for what I believe is corporate welfare. We've got far too many core priorities of government that have to be invested in.