Pork Barrel Quotes

• El primer proyecto de ley basura que pase por mi mesa, lo vetaré y haré famosos en toda América a los autores de esos artículos basura.

  John McCain

  América, Cerdo, Proyectos de ley

  Transcripción del debate republicano de California, www.nbcnews.com. 3 de mayo de 2007.

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• I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

  John McCain

  Pork, Subsidies, Care

  "McCain picks up Thompson endorsement". www.cnn.com. August 18, 1999.

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• El presupuesto de defensa es algo más que una hucha para gente que quiere dedicarse a meter espadas en barriles de cerdo.

  George H. W. Bush

  Gente, Cerdo, Defensa

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• El proyecto de ley es un ejemplo de manual de la política del barril de cerdo de intereses especiales en el trabajo, y no tengo más remedio que vetarlo.

  Ronald Reagan

  Choices, Special, Pork

  Estados Unidos. Presidente (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). "Ronald Reagan"

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• Los liberales creen que existe un fondo inagotable al que se puede recurrir sin fin para pagar los programas sociales del gobierno. Gravar a los ricos y dárselo a una larga lista de gorrones, vividores y malhechores. De otro modo, estos fondos se habrían empleado como capital adicional indispensable para el progreso económico.

  James Cook

  Creer, Gobierno, Dar

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• I think there [are] great economies that can be made starting with a round of base closings, ... I want the president to veto these pork-barrel spending bills which have grown to incredible obscene levels. I believe there are a number of weapons systems that have to be eliminated.

  John McCain

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• ¿Tiene alguna importancia? No. Pero hay un gran simbolismo asociado al hecho de que vayamos a añadir 24.000 millones de dólares a la deuda en proyectos no deseados e innecesarios.

  John McCain

  Symbolism, Differences, Pork

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• The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

  Walter Karp

  Military, Risk, Special

  Walter Karp (1973). “Indispensable enemies: the politics of misrule in America”

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• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  Barry Loudermilk

  Partido, Gobierno, Té

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• As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

  James F. Cooper

  País, Madre, Hijos

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