Following is our list of the most famous earmark quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational earmark quotes. Hopefully, these earmark quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your earmark knowledge!
By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven. — John Rutledge
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. — Jello Biafra
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others. — Maimonides
It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate. — Sheila Jackson Lee
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around. — Winston Churchill
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels. — George H. W. Bush
I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met. — Bill Lipinski
The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research. — Steve Israel
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year. — Arlen Specter
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. — J. K. Rowling
Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C. — Dan Benishek
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. — Clint Murchison, Jr.
Short Earmark Quotes
I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us. — Sylvia Browne
I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks. — John McCain
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. — Jef I. Richards
Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks. — Rand Paul
Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem. — Claire McCaskill
I have never been opposed to earmarks. — Judd Gregg
Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending. — Todd Tiahrt
Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches. — Jamsetji Tata
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. — Eric Hoffer
Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference. — Beth Moore
Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost. — Eric Cantor
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. — Jeff Flake
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. — Barack Obama
During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge. — Michele Bachmann
The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth. — Evo Morales
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.' — Tom Coburn
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets. — Eric Cantor
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington. — John Boehner
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life. — Hermann Hesse
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year. — Carly Fiorina
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust. — John Boehner
I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them. — Harry Reid
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. — Anthony Weiner
After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country. — Michele Bachmann
When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities. — Ratan Tata
Is it civility for Barack Obama to continually lie, to promise the same things he's promised us last year and the year before? Jobs, jobs, jobs, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, shovel-ready, earmarks, spending freezes, all of these things he's promised before. Where is the civility in misleading the people? — Rush Limbaugh
Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington. — Mitt Romney
I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident. — Joyce Thompson
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks. — Claire McCaskill
Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our bonded indebtedness is too high and we simply can't afford it. For example, building museums in the middle of a recession makes little sense. — Chris McDaniel
Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them, fearing they were falling into Hell itself. Men were moved by fear to escape damnation. That was believed to be Christianity. Why any coward wanted to keep out of Hell. He might not have had one idea in his soul of what was the real true earmark of Christianity. — John G. Lake
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