John Barrasso Quotes

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.

This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before Eagle-Net wastes any more money.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

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.

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.

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

We are spending altogether too much money for government services which are neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this, we are attempting too many functions and we need a simplification of what the Federal government is giving the people.

Reagan cut through irrational federal regulations to allow children to live with their parents, where they could receive care that would cost the taxpayer one-sixth as much as institutional care. By contrast, Obamacare has added thousands of pages of bureaucratic regulations and will cost the federal government untold billions.

Unfortunately, Republicans repeatedly waste taxpayer time and money, and even shut down the government, in efforts to repeal ACA. We simply cannot afford this kind of dysfunction.

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

The main issue is huge government spending, and my record has been trying to make sure the federal government lives within its means. I guess that's really what separates where Republicans have been from the Democrats.

That's why we don't give the government extra money as conservatives because government generally stinks at spending money. That's why!

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

The Pig Book

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?”

Government ... simply has no bottom line.

Tell Congress to go home and make an honest living instead of riding on the backs of the taxpayers.

Base closings [are] the most atrocious waste of money I have ever seen in my life.

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

We must cut federal spending - every wasted dollar, every low priority program, and every unconstitutional overreach - every day.

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