“If government is to retain the confidence of the People, it must not spend more than can be justified on grounds of national need or spent with maximum efficiency.” - John F. Kennedy, speech to the Economic Club of N.Y., Dec. 14, 1962.
“Social-program spending is spending done directly on the public rather than for the public’s benefit. Note the mental image evoked by the very word public: public school, public park, public health, public housing. To call something public is to define it as dirty, insufficient and hazardous. The ultimate paradigm of social spending is the public rest room.” - P.J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores, 1991.