Since 9/11, we have spent only $500 million to secure our mass transit system. That's a sum we spend every three days in Iraq.

Do you ever use the transit system?

It was staggering that he's already spent $47 million to get elected.

The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.

The state of Illinois had $17 million to spend, with requests for $67 million,

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.