Antonis Samaras Quotes

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

The President is asking our business men to economize and become more efficient, while we continue to be the most inefficient and expensive barnacle that ever attached itself to the ship of state.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

Curtailment of expense could be effected only on the principle that as the government did nothing well, it might as well do nothing.

We need to deliver efficient, transparent government.

Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.

Growth hackers don't tolerate waste.

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.

We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission.

Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator must look inward to save money.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

If the rest of Washington ran as efficiently as this football team there wouldn't be any deficit.

You may think my business is to make appropriations, but it is not. It is to prevent their being made.

Authorizers do a big dog and pony show, but when it comes to the top line, we have open warfare about what the top line will be …

The object of protection is that of diminishing the distance and the waste between the producer and the consumer