Mark Meadows Quotes

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

The problem comes from the lack of transparency and accountability of government.

When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

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.

It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

A power in the individuals who compose legislatures, to fish up wealth from the people, by nets of their own weaving ... will corrupt legislative, executive and judicial publick servants.

National security is like that vague term Executive privilege. Both terms have been abused; both concepts have been damaged; they've been used as shields for secrecy.

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse

Parading around the nation as a squeaky clean, crime-fighting G-man, J. Edgar Hoover, we now know, thoroughly abused the powers of his office and completely trampled on the individual rights of thousands of patriotic, law-abiding citizens.

Sex scandals, while embarrassing, are far less depressing than financial corruption. I would way rather have an important elected official who patronized prostitutes than one who spent $60,000 of the taxpayers’ money on sushi and lobster.

To often, money that comes to Washington never gets back home because it is eaten away by fraud waste and abuse.

The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.

Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.

Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse of the constitution by the government.

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.