James Dyer Quotes

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

Local groups demand that their representatives and senators bring home the "bacon" or else .... They want economy practiced on the other fellow but not on themselves.

The Pig Book

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're frightened by the interest groups. We act like silly nincompoops. We can't make cuts that cause some sting. We can not even do a thing.

There's an impression in the public that Congress takes care of its own.

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

Donations to political parties, candidates and elected officials should not be a means to gain personal or policy favours or buy access to politicians or civil servants…. Political parties, candidates and politicians should disclose assets, income and expenditure to an independent agency.

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

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage ... No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents

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

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?”

Those guys [congressmen] lived on the basis of getting their little tidbits and their perks.

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.

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

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.

Earmarks are the gateway to corruption.

We don’t care what the cost-benefit is. We’re going to build it somehow because Congress says it’s going to be built.

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

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right [individually] to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

When we're told, "You have to find $750 billion to cut", and we say "OK, we can do that; ....the Congress shouldn't turn around and say, "Not in my district" or "Not my weapons system".

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

I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.