"Pork barrel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bound to spade up round the pork barrel and try a few hills, anyway;" and sez he, dreamily, "We might raise a few string-beans and have 'em run ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley
... least does not paralyze administrative efficiency as our system does today. Through it, the cooerdination of expenditure in government department, the prevention of waste and overlapping in government bureaus, the exposure of the "pork barrel," and the balancing of the relative importance of different national activities in the allocation of our national income can all be greatly promoted. Legislation would also be expedited. No budget that does ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg |
