A Quote by Lauren Boebert

Earmarks are counterproductive tools for entrenched politicians to shut down debate and buy votes.

Lauren Boebert

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Lauren Boebert
American - Politician
Born: December 19, 1986

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Gerhard Schroder

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

Aren't you tired of these career politicians on the left side of the aisle moralizing about the greed of the 'wealthy' when these same politicians habitually buy votes with borrowed dollars? Who are they to lecture those who actually produce and contribute to the economy?

David Limbaugh

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

Edward Abbey

Politics isn't my cup of tea. I can't lie all the time, beg for votes or put down other politicians.

Rakhi Sawant

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

Marsha Blackburn

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

George Will

The people of Mississippi can't just go home, shut down their small business, shut down their restaurants, shut down their gyms... and just think that you can come back six weeks from now, flip a switch and everything's gonna be fine. That's not the way the economy works.

Tate Reeves

To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.

Eric Metaxas

I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view.

Andrew Scheer

The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.

Thomas Sowell

Jeb Bush brought it up at the debate and he was doing it very well, and all of a sudden, I don't know what happened, but he got shut down.

Donald Trump

Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.

Maajid Nawaz

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

Thomas Sowell

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.