Sherrod Brown Quotes

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

It was frightful and almost incredible…that any government should go a—hunting to the uttermost ends of the earth to find means and opportunities of squandering its treasure…for no conceivable purpose of policy.

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

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.

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?”

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

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

Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.

Social spending is going up at a tremendous rate. The irony is that it went up even faster during the “prudent” years of Republican administration more so than it did under the “spendthrift” Democratic administrations….

Everything the Bushites touch is screwed up.

John McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we're the ones who will pay for his flip-flops.

When a Republican tells me that God’s hand is in his, demand to see his credentials.

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

When Republicans say they want to run government 'like a business,' they apparently mean 'run government like a Trump casino headed straight for bankruptcy court.'

For years, President Obama has chastised Republicans, used immigrants as props for political purposes, and time and again deflected responsibility from his own party's failure to act on immigration reform.

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

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

So far, Senate Republicans are good at getting Facebook likes and town halls and not much else. Do something.

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.

Career politicians in D.C. have shirked their responsibility to us for decades. At every turn, they've kicked the can down the road, pushing the burdens of our problems and our debts onto our children and grandchildren.

Each year Citizens Against Government Waste releases the 'Congressional Pig Book.' Outrage over spending for shrimp on treadmills, combating Goth culture studies, bridges to nowhere, etc. ensues for about a week, and then the waste continues.