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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.


Eric Hoffer


#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.


Michele Bachmann


#congress #during #earmarks #faithful #first

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.


Sylvia Browne


#because #been #creates #earmarks #i

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'


Tom Coburn


#demolished #earmark #earmarks #eye #factory

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.


Jeff Flake


#appropriations #committee #earmark #filled #forms

I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.


Claire McCaskill


#defeated #democrat #earmarks #i #i think

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.


Jef I. Richards


#bears #commercial #earmarks #endangered #endangered species

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.


Michele Bachmann


#anything #bailout #bill #billion #budget

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.


Roy Blunt


#apparently #doing #earmarks #eliminating #excited

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.


John Boehner


#american #american people #ban #become #broken