“As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower, February 9, 1955.
“Part of our trouble is that we have been self-indulgent. For decades, we have been voting ever-increasing levels of Government benefits, and now the bill has come due. We have been adding so many new programs that the size and the growth of the Federal budget has taken on a life of its own.” - President Gerald R. Ford, State of the Union Address, January 15, 1975.