I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.

What some people call 'pork' may be as essential as a lock on a dam that creates hydropower, or [support for] a bridge, road, or other critical infrastructure. Sometimes we have to direct spending because the executive branch is not doing its job.