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Bloated Quotes

Too much of anything eventually shows.

This collection of bloated quotes opens with personal debt and an inflated economy described as dangerously bloated, before shifting to a lighter, physical sense of feeling puffy and bloated after too little water. Both meanings connect to broader Believe concerns about balance and excess.

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not...

Quotes by Vince Cable

I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that encourage competition and increase consumer choice, not the bloated bureaucracy, tax increases, rationing, and mandates in the president's government takeover.

Quotes by Tim Griffin

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

Quotes by Thaddeus Stevens

Trillion-dollar bailouts, bloated budgets, and boondoggle spending packages aren't working, at least for my friends and neighbors.

Quotes by Stephen Fincher

Bald Quotes

Unfortunately, most of Congress has little to offer except making noise and knowing how to move up the bloated political chain.

Quotes by Robert Blaha

At the end of the day, every member of the conservative movement, from our political commentators and thinkers to our elected officials, share an important and common purpose in advancing the cause of liberty, reigning in a bloated federal government,...

Quotes by Phil Gingrey

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Quotes by Mark Skousen

On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who voted against President George W. Bush's fiscally bloated No Child Left Behind education bill and hyper-expensive Medicare prescription-drug bill. He said...

Quotes by Lawrence Kudlow

Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days where you've got a spot on your nose or when you've just got off a flight, eaten fish and chips...

Quotes by Lara Stone

Behaving Quotes

I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in...

Quotes by Kate Walsh

The greatest threat to our freedom and prosperity is not al-Qaida, the Taliban, Iran or even China. It's an idea, the idea that we can spend our way out of our problems without tightening our belt and paring down the...

Quotes by Erik Prince

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see...

Quotes by Dick Gregory

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Quotes by Denis Kearney

The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.

Quotes by Dambisa Moyo

Believe Quotes

What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy,...

Quotes by Chip Esten

The Greek people deserve an economy that is not burdened forever by a heavy bureaucracy and a bloated public sector.

Quotes by Charles Dallara

I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes...

Quotes by Britt Ekland

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

Quotes by Barbara Kruger

Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?

Quotes by Baltasar Kormakur

Big Quotes

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Quotes by Andrea Dworkin

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does this bloated quotes page cover?
It collects quotes using the word bloated to describe everything from a puffy feeling in the body to excessive government bureaucracy and inherited wealth.
Why do people search for quotes about bloated?
The word bloated applies to health, politics, and economics alike, so people search for it when looking for sharp, critical language about excess in any of those areas.
What does the quote about personal debt and inflated economy mean?
It criticizes predecessors for leaving behind more personal debt than other major economies and a dangerously inflated financial position, using bloated in an economic sense.
Is there a quote about feeling physically bloated?
Yes, one quote describes drinking plenty of water specifically because feeling puffy and bloated is a sign the body needs help flushing out toxins.
Does this collection criticize bureaucracy specifically?
One quote argues that health care reform should target bloated bureaucracy rather than raising taxes or rationing care, using the word as a pointed political criticism. Related themes appear in Believe quotes.

Political quotes follow, criticizing bloated bureaucracy and bloated aristocratic estates that once demanded reform. For more on scale and appearance, see Big and Bald quotes.