#earmarks

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

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#billion #citizens #debt #designate #did

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target! ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#cia #earmarks #everybody #except #had

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