Judd Gregg Quotes

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.

Those members of Congress who want to bring back pork to their districts should stand up proudly and be counted.

Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

I don't disagree with Senator McCain when he talks about the earmark process.

The Pig Book

Earmarks are the gateway to corruption.

George W. Bush is a big spender…. When Congress sends up a bill with big. fat, crackling pork, he says, “Where’s the barbecue sauce?”

Sooner or later you have to reach down into that old pork barrel.

We all have to pay when powerful members of Congress work to bring home the bacon.

I'm sick and tired - and the American people are sick and tired - of the pork barrel spending.

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

There's a lot of politics over who gets the next allocation of Congressional funding.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

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.

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.

If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending.

The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.

It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.