Government Fraud Quotes

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

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.

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.

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.

Since the last session of Congress numerous frauds on the Treasury have been discovered …. Either from some defect in the law or in its administration every effort to bring the accused to trial under its provisions proved ineffectual, and the Government was driven to the necessity of resorting to the vague and inadequate provisions of the common law.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

I could never have any corruption from the state because I never had any business with the state.

Louisiana showed up at the top of a study of political corruption that calculated the number of convictions per capita. Georgia came out as worst on a corruption risk report from the State Integrity Investigation, which measured factors like accountability, transparency and ethics enforcement.

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

The cold grasp of corruption shackles the District of Columbia.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

I did not take an oath to support and defend government illegalities, violations of the Constitution or turn a blind eye to massive fraud, waste, and abuse…. My oath to defend the Constitution took precedence … otherwise I would have been complicit.