Appropriations Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining…
— Martin Van Buren
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The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
— James Madison
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Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to…
— Karl Marx
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There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
— James Madison
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Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally…
— Dennis Hastert
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The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
— John Ensign
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Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress.…
— John Foster Dulles
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Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at…
— Robert M. Gates
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There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes…
— Chaka Fattah
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The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing…
— Dave Obey
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If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.
— John J. Rooney
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There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
— James Madison
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As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.
— William Proxmire
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Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American…
— Rick Renzi
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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
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I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations…
— David Ogilvy
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Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions…
— Robert Dallek
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To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435…
— Kevin Yoder
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The Federal appropriations process is a marathon, not a sprint, and we are at the beginning of that process.
— Jim Walsh
Who Wrote These Appropriations Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Appropriations Quotes as follows: