Virgil Goode Quotes

The real problem with the government is not the deficit; it is that the government spends too much money.

The root of most all problems we have today is the uncontrollable appetite of politicians in Washington to dish it out.

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.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

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

What chiefly governs the military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

Massive Federal Budget Deficits are only the most conspicuous sign of a society that has promised itself more than it could afford.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.

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

Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

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.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

The purchase of unnecessary military hardware is undoubtedly the most wasteful element in American government.

There is so much crap [waste] going on over there [the Pentagon], I could run the Navy Department on the cost-of-living increases alone.

There's nothing like spending other peoples’ money

I believe there is nothing which can be done to restrain these frivolous Presidential expenditures because Mobutu has apparently risen in soufflé-like grandiloquence…. to call his attention to the dangers of this type of thing … would be to incur instant wrath…. It is the most serious problem facing Congo at present time and the fault is that of the President [Mobuto] and the uncontrollable spending is coming from him.