Appropriations Quotes

#1. The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.

John Ensign

#2. Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

Rick Renzi

#3. The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

Dave Obey

#4. Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations.

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

Kevin Yoder

#6. It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#7. Here's where I'm different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills.

Kevin Cramer

#8. Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.

Dennis Hastert

#9. We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

Dan Webster

#10. If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.

John J. Rooney

#11. Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.

Karl Marx

#12. I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

Lindsey Graham

#13. Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.

Pat Mitchell

#14. The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.

Ron Wyden

#15. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them.

Robert Dallek

#17. There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.

James Madison

#18. 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

#19. I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12.

Joe Heck

#20. Uncivil, incompetent in fulfilling basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned, often putting self (and reelection) before country - this was my view of the majority of the United States Congress.

Robert M. Gates

#21. As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

William Proxmire

#22. There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

Chaka Fattah

#23. The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.

Jim Walsh

#24. To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

Martin Van Buren

#25. I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

David Ogilvy

#26. Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Lucille Ball

#27. Old ghosts, the shadows of might-have-beens.

Cassandra Clare

#28. With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

Kazimir Malevich

#29. If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

#30. People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.

Sherrod Brown

#31. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

Rudolf Virchow

#32. I'm sure people are shocked when they see a guy speeding and cutting them off and having road rage while in a Prius.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#33. Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. Even so long after sunset, the sky in the west was touched with feather-strokes of crimson and black. The wind was blowing from the east, which meant that even in the middle of the city you could breathe in desert: sand and grit, cactus and coyotes, the burning scent of sage.

Cassandra Clare