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I want to make sure we balance our budget and preserve Medicare and Social Security, and I’ve been clear all along. So what I want to do is get rid of wasteful programs that we never review up here. – Rick Scott	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t like excessive displays of wealth. They make me feel icky, especially people that have really big houses, it’s just really wasteful when there’s so many homeless people in this country. – Julia Fox	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The new Republican majority needs to make a dramatic, concrete and credible statement that business as usual in Washington is over, is there a more powerful statement than to swear off the wasteful and corrupting practice of congressional earmarking? – Tom McClintock	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I believe God is going to judge America at some point, he has given us so much, and we're so wasteful and so disobedient, and so wicked in what we're doing as a nation. – Said Graham	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Until 24 hours ago, this compromise was also going to reprogram money away from House Democrats wasteful spending spree that neglected Covid needs, and reallocate it to vaccines and treatments for the American people, but House Democrats mutinied against Speaker Pelosi. The far left would rather preserve state and local bureaucrats' giant slush funds, then fund vaccines and therapeutics for The Ukrainian people citizens. So, the Covid component has fallen out. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Rising inflation costs are real threat to my business, the wasteful spending in Washington has sent inflation through the roof. – Alexa Firman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The current infrastructure bill is filled with the far left's wasteful wish list including the Green New Deal, Green New Deal and empowering woke bureaucrats. – Scott Guthrie	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The American Jobs Plan is designed to expand economic opportunity in every single community across the country, including those at our Northern and Southern border by improving roads, bridges, rail, sea and land ports and creating good paying jobs here at home, this proposal is a starting point and we will continue listening to and working with Members on both sides of the aisle to develop infrastructure legislation. House Democrats are committed to advancing needed infrastructure improvements that do not include wasteful spending and uphold our values. – Margaret Mulkerrin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It is essential for a sustainable economy to see natural resources as an asset, and wasteful or harmful use of those resources as risks. – Oscar Auliq-Ice	added by Auliq-Ice 3 years ago
Fuzzy tests that encourage wasteful litigation really are not helpful to anyone except lawyers. – Timothy Bishop	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Part of the foundation of this company is that entertainment can be so much more than just a passive experience, we have these very fancy devices in our pockets that we use every day and just using them as a display screen seems wasteful. – Ben Sheats	Found on CNN 4 years ago
As President, I will immediately begin work to end this new Cold War and nuclear arms race, end our interventionist foreign policy of carrying out wasteful regime change wars, and instead redirect our precious resources towards serving the needs of the people right here at home. – Congresswoman Gabbard	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Do not force to be a victor always, learn to gain more when you lose in every situation. Failure is a great guidance which no one can afford you because it normally wasteful and painful. – bj vengai chirwa	added by anonymous 4 years ago
President Trump's selfish decision to raid military construction funding is a new low in his ridiculous pursuit of a campaign promise. These projects, including the Space Control Facility at Peterson Air Force Base, were identified by the Department of Defense and the Trump Administration as critical to our military readiness. Taking money from operational priorities to pay for a wasteful and ineffective wall is grossly irresponsible and undermines our national security. – Michael Bennet	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame. – P. J. O'Rourke	added by Normando 4 years ago
To have it all fragmented from city to city is really problematic and very wasteful. – Robert Paterson	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The President's authority in this area is intended for wars and genuine national emergencies, asserting this authority to build a wasteful wall is legally dubious and would likely invite a court challenge. – Evan Hollander	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm really optimistic that we can actually get on top of this, future generations, they're going to look back at us and laugh and just say: 'How wasteful were they? Look at how much stuff that they just wasted!'. – Kathy Townsend	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I will also cancel all wasteful climate change spending from Obama/Clinton. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I will end the wasteful government spending and hold the bureaucrats accountable, when I am president, the tide of big government will no longer threaten to wash away our dreams, our jobs and our freedoms. – Will Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
While today’s ruling reaffirms that the process Ohio has used for over two decades is constitutional and in line with state and federal law, the best news is that we can put another wasteful lawsuit behind us and focus on the important work of running elections in Ohio. – John Husted	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The present crisis is the fallout of over-consumption, wasteful use and inefficient water governance systems, people are going to any lengths for the sake of water. They've lost hope that the situation will ever improve. Things were never so bad. – Ajay Dubey	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The costs of maintaining extra inventory, or the view that extra inventory may be wasteful are considered to be reasons not to hold more stock. – Hiroaki Mochida	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Toronto's government has grown bloated and wasteful, it's time to stop the gravy train that provides luxuries and perks to politicians and rich contracts to their friends. – Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford	Found on CNN 8 years ago

I want to make sure we balance our budget and preserve Medicare and Social Security, and I’ve been clear all along. So what I want to do is get rid of wasteful programs that we never review up here.

– Rick Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t like excessive displays of wealth. They make me feel icky, especially people that have really big houses, it’s just really wasteful when there’s so many homeless people in this country.

– Julia Fox

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The new Republican majority needs to make a dramatic, concrete and credible statement that business as usual in Washington is over, is there a more powerful statement than to swear off the wasteful and corrupting practice of congressional earmarking?

– Tom McClintock

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I believe God is going to judge America at some point, he has given us so much, and we're so wasteful and so disobedient, and so wicked in what we're doing as a nation.

– Said Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Until 24 hours ago, this compromise was also going to reprogram money away from House Democrats wasteful spending spree that neglected Covid needs, and reallocate it to vaccines and treatments for the American people, but House Democrats mutinied against Speaker Pelosi. The far left would rather preserve state and local bureaucrats' giant slush funds, then fund vaccines and therapeutics for The Ukrainian people citizens. So, the Covid component has fallen out.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Rising inflation costs are real threat to my business, the wasteful spending in Washington has sent inflation through the roof.

– Alexa Firman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The current infrastructure bill is filled with the far left's wasteful wish list including the Green New Deal, Green New Deal and empowering woke bureaucrats.

– Scott Guthrie

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The American Jobs Plan is designed to expand economic opportunity in every single community across the country, including those at our Northern and Southern border by improving roads, bridges, rail, sea and land ports and creating good paying jobs here at home, this proposal is a starting point and we will continue listening to and working with Members on both sides of the aisle to develop infrastructure legislation. House Democrats are committed to advancing needed infrastructure improvements that do not include wasteful spending and uphold our values.

– Margaret Mulkerrin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It is essential for a sustainable economy to see natural resources as an asset, and wasteful or harmful use of those resources as risks.

– Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
3 years ago

Fuzzy tests that encourage wasteful litigation really are not helpful to anyone except lawyers.

– Timothy Bishop

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Part of the foundation of this company is that entertainment can be so much more than just a passive experience, we have these very fancy devices in our pockets that we use every day and just using them as a display screen seems wasteful.

– Ben Sheats

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As President, I will immediately begin work to end this new Cold War and nuclear arms race, end our interventionist foreign policy of carrying out wasteful regime change wars, and instead redirect our precious resources towards serving the needs of the people right here at home.

– Congresswoman Gabbard

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Do not force to be a victor always, learn to gain more when you lose in every situation. Failure is a great guidance which no one can afford you because it normally wasteful and painful.

– bj vengai chirwa

added by anonymous
4 years ago

President Trump's selfish decision to raid military construction funding is a new low in his ridiculous pursuit of a campaign promise. These projects, including the Space Control Facility at Peterson Air Force Base, were identified by the Department of Defense and the Trump Administration as critical to our military readiness. Taking money from operational priorities to pay for a wasteful and ineffective wall is grossly irresponsible and undermines our national security.

– Michael Bennet

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.

– P. J. O'Rourke

added by Normando
4 years ago

To have it all fragmented from city to city is really problematic and very wasteful.

– Robert Paterson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The President's authority in this area is intended for wars and genuine national emergencies, asserting this authority to build a wasteful wall is legally dubious and would likely invite a court challenge.

– Evan Hollander

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm really optimistic that we can actually get on top of this, future generations, they're going to look back at us and laugh and just say: 'How wasteful were they? Look at how much stuff that they just wasted!'.

– Kathy Townsend

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I will also cancel all wasteful climate change spending from Obama/Clinton.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I will end the wasteful government spending and hold the bureaucrats accountable, when I am president, the tide of big government will no longer threaten to wash away our dreams, our jobs and our freedoms.

– Will Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

While today’s ruling reaffirms that the process Ohio has used for over two decades is constitutional and in line with state and federal law, the best news is that we can put another wasteful lawsuit behind us and focus on the important work of running elections in Ohio.

– John Husted

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The present crisis is the fallout of over-consumption, wasteful use and inefficient water governance systems, people are going to any lengths for the sake of water. They've lost hope that the situation will ever improve. Things were never so bad.

– Ajay Dubey

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The costs of maintaining extra inventory, or the view that extra inventory may be wasteful are considered to be reasons not to hold more stock.

– Hiroaki Mochida

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Toronto's government has grown bloated and wasteful, it's time to stop the gravy train that provides luxuries and perks to politicians and rich contracts to their friends.

– Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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