George Papandreou Quotes

Chidamabaram has ruined the economy. He has turned out to be a third-rate failure as finance minister.

Netanyahu's government and its faulty and politicized priorities are leading Israel into bankruptcy.

Since taking office in 2008, the Barrow Administration failed to stimulate the necessary economic growth. Instead they have, over the more than four years, continued on a path of borrow and spend, accumulating huge additional debts.

Despite all the hoopla - despite all the umpa - after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into debt of $2.4 billion: some $200 million deeper in debt.

Everywhere you look in Washington, you can find examples of financial mismanagement.

Our government is deeply disordered; its credit is impaired; its debt increasing; its expenditures extravagant and wasteful; its disbursements without efficient accountability; and its taxes (for duties are but taxes) enormous, unequal, and oppressive to the great producing classes of the country.

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.

The Brownback-Colyer administration's lack of interest in ending the border war was emblematic of economic recklessness on their watch that extended well beyond a failed tax experiment.

Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.

The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

The deficit is potentially Ronald Reagan’s Vietnam.

The government relying on it would be disappointed, and ruin soon stare them in the face.

We have spent years robbing Peter to pay Paul until now Paul is also broke.

The financial failure of the United States was a government failure and not a market failure.

President George W. Bush inherited the strongest economy and the largest surplus ever in American history. He has blown both of them. I thought that one of the things he would be good at is inheriting but he wasn’t able to even do that well.

If you undertake to divide all these appropriations and have many committees where there should be but one, you will enter upon a path of extravagance that you cannot foresee … until we find the Treasury of the country bankrupt.

Ronald Reagan was the modern prophet of profligacy.

I am biased against stupid members of Congress who would put your economy at risk.

I have been in Washington for 22 years and have seen us kick the can down the road. Well there is no more road to kick the can down.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.