Quotes About Reform

Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.

Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

We will not waste 30 years of our lives dealing with extremist ideas; we will destroy them today.

We need to root out the waste and abuse that is rampant in our state agencies. When we do that and grow the economy, we will be able to fund the vital programs and services we need.

I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.

I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.

I think it's time... that we reform Congress to the point where all public assistance comes in one single committee. One area where all public assistance can be located, and it will be easy to see all the duplications, all the waste, so much easier to see areas where fraud is running rampant.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

Serving on the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight allows me to play a role making government more accountable by investigating waste, mismanagement, and improprieties.

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.