Ronald Reagan Quotes

The Pig Book

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?”

If I had a tit for every one of these pigs to suck at, they would still be my friend.

The President is going around the country handing out so much pork that the Agriculture Department is going to have to station a meat inspector on board Air Force One.

Earmarks are the gateway to corruption.

I came from Iowa, south central Iowa. It was a very rural area. I saw a lot more hogs growing up than I saw people.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

A pig is a pig no matter whose pigpen it's in.

Okay, Frank, next time you need a dam in Idaho, ask Walter Lippmann for one.

Pork is the most visible malady of Congress from the public point of view.

The military pork barrel spreads special privilege far beyond the confines of the arms contractors; it directly creates at least two million industrial jobs, every holder of which is all too dependent for his well-being on the well-being of the party oligarchs and the success of their corrupt policies. By virtue of the military budget, a large number of ordinary citizens have been given a direct stake in corrupt power.

There are hundreds and hundreds .... We've had the policy of protecting members and not exposing them, but we've taken a lot of abuse. There are members on the bandwagon of anti-spending, but they come and get their share.

Our hope is that an omnibus bill is put together so we can work through our friends on the leadership staff to insert the language at the very end of the process, instead of working through the normal appropriations process—which involves too many people and could jeopardize our legislative fix.

When you’re spending 24 billion dollars in pork barrel transportation projects how can you go to the American people and talk about tax increases.

Farm subsidies are bribes for votes.

What these peckerwoods call pork is infrastructure.

Never have I seen such a monstrous piece of legislation. Without a single committee hearing we are being asked to vote on that 484 pages. They think we will all go along with it. I read in the paper that nobody will have the courage to vote against it. Well, Robert Byrd is going to vote against it because I don't know what I am voting for.

Farm life requires teamwork to a greater degree than any other way of life.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and a vegetable garden. I spent hours pulling weeds, hoeing, feeding the horses, cleaning out the stalls. My dad was a tough taskmaster. I always worked, but we also had fun.

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.