Political Quotes

“Again, this is not a political statement. I can't imagine the most partisan person in the world saying that this is good government, when we have money leaving here through a fire hose and nobody asking them where it is going or what happened to it, and if they did ask them, they couldn't tell them. They can't produce an audit. They can't tell you what they did with the money. This is the grossest kind much financial mismanagement on a scale that I can ever recall in the history of this country. We don't even get to Iraq and all the sole source contracts that have been given there and the billions of dollars that cannot be tracked or traced or even accounted for. I don't like to pay taxes any more than anybody else, but the one thing I do expect is the Congress to at least exercise its oversight authority to the extent that they hold people accountable who are spending this money. I know in business, you ask somebody, well, what is this expenditure for? 'I don't know, man. I can't tell you.' Nobody would put up with that. No taxpayer would put up with it. And yet in our public life, in our public business, in the government of the United States it is happening every day, and people are tolerating it because you have a compliant Congress, a friendly administration. Nobody wants to embarrass anybody else. So what we see here is the grossest kind of financial mismanagement on a scale that is literally breathtaking.”