58 Quotes by Keith Ashdown

You know how they call Vancouver 'North Hollywood'? Well, Alaska could become 'North North Hollywood,'

We considered it one of the worst items in the bill. It's a slush fund for the oil and gas industry that would have been in the backyard of one of the more powerful members in Congress.

We would have been much, much better off with no bill. Everything they did, there's a simple way around it.

Those 2,966 earmarks are a symptom of a disease that is preventing our troops from getting the tools they need.

With all these new programs, the administration's contention that the deficit will be cut in half in the next five years is a tall tale, derived in large part by omitting very likely or inevitable costs, including costs for proposals the administration itself hopes and intends to support.

There are probably thousands of businesses that need this type of help, but this happens to be in the back yard of the lawmaker who runs the subcommittee.

This sets the stage for some very, very interesting hearings next week.

This shows the best government contractors don't always get hired, the most politically influential do. We need to strive for more competitive bidding.

We will learn months after the money was wasted or stolen that it was wasted and stolen.