“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.” SocialCompanyEnvironmentWasteProgramDollarsSpendingHarmWelfareWealthyTaxpayersReductionMockery Author:Ralph Nader
“One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up” YearsCausesLevelsMillionsWasteDollarsCleanAccidentsStrikesTerroristDamageCatastropheInvolvingHigh Level Author:Shelley Berkley
“To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.” GovernmentPoorPayMillionsProductsWastePerformancesDollarsHeightIncompleteBonusMismanagementPoor PerformanceGovernment Waste Author:Jim Gibbons
“Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.” YearsMillionsFiveImpossibleBuildingWasteYears AgoDollarsFive YearsSiteMillion Dollars Author:David Walker
“I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.” WellsStatesJobsIndividualCan DoEffortMagicTaxesWasteDollarsFavorsScalesAdministrationBureaucracyCompulsionIncompetenceLarge ScaleTax DollarsIndividual Effort Author:John F. Kennedy
“None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.” KnowsWantMadeBigsCareFilmTurnsDealsHalfMillionsRiskCostWasteTwentiesDollarsProfitBudgetsThirtyMillion DollarsNo One Cares Author:Clint Eastwood
“Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.” NeedsShouldSometimesGovernmentSpeakInformationWillingSourceIntegrityWastePerformancesAbuseDollarsCommittedPartnersEmpoweringEmployeeFraudTaxpayersSpeaks OutWrongdoingSave A LifeBe EncouragedActs Of CourageWhistleblowersGovernment Employees Author:Barack Obama
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” IfsPersonsMoneyCompanyTechnologySecurityCallingWasteComputerHundredSafetyDollarsTrustedAttackingHackersIntrusionDetectionEncryptionComplying Author:Kevin Mitnick
“The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.” ShouldOrderAcceptingRiskWasteProjectsDollarsKillingExpectedUtility Author:David R. Brower
“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.” YearsGovernmentResultsWasteProgramAbuseDollarsCreditBillionsCardsAgencyFederal GovernmentBureaucracyEntitlementCredit CardMisuseGovernment BureaucracyMismanagementEntitlement ProgramsGovernment AgenciesGovernment Waste Author:Chris Chocola
“The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.” PersonsGovernmentOrderDemocracyWasteCapitalismIdealsVoteFunctionInstrumentsDollarsProductionsCollectivesSuperstitionsConsumptionTrash Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.” PeopleMenMeanCountryGovernmentFormWishEconomyPolicyHe ManBearsCostWasteMen And WomenDollarsSpendingFavorsPracticalsIdealismToilSaving MoneySave MeGovernment Spending Author:Calvin Coolidge