I have never been opposed to earmarks.
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.
I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us.
Our legislative victory - an end to earmarks.
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 that we don't have. But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt. It was unlike anything we've ever seen before in the history of the country.
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
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.
I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.
