Wilbur Mills Quotes

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.

It is my belief there is too much concentration of power and spending in Washington.

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

I stand with everyone who is sick of hearing about Washington cutting insider deals to their friends in business, politicians failing on their promises to fight increases in government spending, and more costly and complicated rules from Washington that make everyone's lives harder.

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

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.

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?

The Pig Book

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.

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

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.

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.

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?”

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

Where the public money runs deepest the hogs fight each other to get their snouts in the trough, and the big trough nowadays runs through the Pentagon.

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

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

Tell Congress to go home and make an honest living instead of riding on the backs of the taxpayers.

The biggest problem with the deficit is programs that are unconstitutional and wasteful.

The people in Washington are getting rich with our money. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government swelled to record size, and it took more and more of our money to pay for it. Who benefitted? Not Missouri farmers or workers.

Hoosiers sent me to Washington to help President Trump drain the swamp, and it starts with cutting out generous taxpayer-funded perks that keep career politicians in D.C.

The cost of healthcare, caring for our veterans, and draining the swamp are among a few of the issues I have been tackling for Hoosiers in Washington.