American people Quote by John Boehner

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but…

— Roy Blunt

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

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a…

— Tom Coburn

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their…

— Carly Fiorina

The responsible use of earmarks can have public benefits.

— Jeff Fortenberry

If the earmark is reinstated, get ready for an avalanche of government waste coming in the form of a Democrat wish list.

— Lauren Boebert

Frankly, earmarking is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem.

— Claire McCaskill

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

— Todd Tiahrt

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

— Eric Cantor

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

— Judd Gregg

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…

— Jeff Flake

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…

— Jim DeMint