Unaccountable Spending Quotes

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

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.

There will always be waste, fraud, and abuse. That's just life.

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

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

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?

There is a seeming impropriety in leaving any set of men without control to put their hand into the public coffers, to take out money to put in their pockets.

The IRS, now known for abusing its power by targeting groups for their political beliefs, is a prime example of an overgrown federal agency that doles out enormous bonuses to senior employees.

I never would have believed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate that the U.S. government could buy GM without a hearing, with no vote, yes or no. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake here.

Waste of public money is like a sin against the Holy Ghost.

You know when you go into your pocket and feel another hand in there? Well, that's Premier Kathleen Wynne.

A lot of the money spent in the name of relief has nothing to do with relief.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

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

The SSA's practice of allowing union activity during normal federal government operations is unfair to seniors and taxpayers.

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.

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

In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.