58 Quotes by Keith Ashdown

Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.

We need to get out of the business of subsidizing people who are in harm's way.

We're supposed to be protecting the victims of the storms, not the people insuring them.

There could be a loophole of hundreds of thousands of people who would not be impacted. On a percentage of their income, they're the ones that are feeling (the cost increase) a lot, lot more. Some of us have been kicked, but they've been kicked in the teeth.

This bill will be known as the most earmarked transportation bill in the history of our nation.

This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real value of contracts. I've done the math in my head 100 times and I don't know how they computed this cost.

They've created a complicated scheme of making sure a lot of different profitable energy industries are going to make off like bandits, ... pad their bottom line, but it doesn't really create new behavior in the energy industry.

They're going to go with what they know. There is some type of relationship.

They're a little late to the parade, but I still think it's an important step to make sure this whole sort of embarrassing era has ended.