Quotes About Pork Barrel

#1. The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Ronald Reagan

#2. We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks.

Lawrence Kudlow

#3. The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

Walter Karp

#4. I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president to veto these pork-barrel spending bills which have grown to incredible obscene levels. I believe there are a number of weapons systems that have to be eliminated.

John McCain

#5. They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

David Davis

#6. The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

John McCain

#7. Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.

Benigno Aquino III

#8. I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

John McCain

#9. Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.

John McCain

#10. I serve."
"Serve who?"
"Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing.

Jim Butcher

#11. However, I guess your time is of value, and we did not meet to talk about the cut of my socks.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

Thornton Wilder

#13. One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn't aware of it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

Michael Card

#15. Whatever is our 'contribution' to a situation..
Is all that we can 'influence' to alter/improve the situation..
In our control therefore, is this INFLUENCE!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#16. Perhaps it does us good to have a fall every now and then. As long as we don't break.

J.M. Coetzee

#17. It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

Petter Stordalen

#18. As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.

Allan G. Johnson

#19. Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge

#20. Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

Ian McKellen

#21. Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.

Billy Beane

#22. You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

Joyce Meyer

#23. I believe that on such an issue as this no one is or can be completely truthful. It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan

George Orwell

#24. I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new.

Louise Hay