Citizens Against Government Waste Quotes

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

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

When Congress opens the government’s purse, the benefits flow to special interests rather than the public interest.

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

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

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.

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?”

Congressmen have their noses right in the trough and they're slurping it up for their districts at the expense of all the taxpayers.

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

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

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

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

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

We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

I view roads as a source of boundless patronage to the executive, jobbing to members of Congress and their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money. You will begin by only appropriating the surplus of the post office revenues; but the other revenues will soon be called into their aid, and it will be a source of eternal scramble among the members, who can get the most money wasted in their State

The host of contractors, speculators, stockjobbers, and lobby members which haunt the halls of Congress, all desirous ... to get their arm into the public treasury, are sufficient to alarm every friend of this country. Their progress must be arrested.

The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts, and it doesn't matter whether it works or not.

The root of most all problems we have today is the uncontrollable appetite of politicians in Washington to dish it out.

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

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.

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.'

If you think that my job is to rob the Federal Treasury on your behalf, you have voted for the wrong man

Patronage cements parties. Those caviling against corruption are principally moralistic muckrakers who were never closely allied to the entrepreneurial spirit