"I am in favor of getting rid of earmarks, of reducing earmarks," he said. "I'm for any rule that diminishes it."

– Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, following a speech to Nevada’s Republican National Convention delegation, on reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hired a lobbying firm to obtain $27 million in earmarks for Wasilla, Alaska, the town she was mayor of from 1996 to 2002.