Michio Kaku Quotes

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?”

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.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

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

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

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

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

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.

Tell me why the limousine fleet has increased by 42 percent since Barack Obama took office. Why are we spending taxpayers' money on that? Limos should be for weddings and proms, certainly not for government officials to be riding around in.

Federal spending is atrocious.

Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.

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

Homeland Security money ought not to be allocated on a pork barrel basis.

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

There's more pork barrel than strategic need to the Galaxy.

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

The President is going around the country handing out so much pork that the Agriculture Department is going to have to station a meat inspector on board Air Force One.

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.

When you’re spending 24 billion dollars in pork barrel transportation projects how can you go to the American people and talk about tax increases.

Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.

We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.

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