#earmarks

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#earmarks #especially #fell #guilty #know

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#budgets #cutbacks #earmarks #eliminating #fight

There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#bad #district #doubt #earmarks #get

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

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