Cal Thomas Quotes

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

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.

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and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.

Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's nearly impossible to fire the incompetents. And, taxpayers, who support the service, are given higher tax bills.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as much money from government as possible for doing as little as possible.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

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?”

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government building—unless it's a temporary tax.

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.

The Pentagon is the Poster Child for waste in Government.

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

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

Whether you're a veteran or a millennial, it's hard to argue that big government has solved your problems efficiently, if at all.

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

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.