Anthony Weiner Quotes

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

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

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

The Pig Book

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

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

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.

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.'

Homeland Security money ought not to be allocated on a pork barrel basis.

Our nation was founded on the pork barrel, and it has become great by political log-rolling.