"I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. It would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded." --Franklin Pierce 1854
"I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds. ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution." -- Grover Cleveland 1887
"We will have affordable prescription drugs for our seniors" --George W. Bush 2003
(an interesting progression)
But, before he said the above he said this:
"...There ought to be limits to freedom"
--George W. Bush, May 21, 1999
He said this after the FEC refused to take action against a web site that parodied Bush's 2000 presidential campaign web site.
In the complaint filed with the FEC, Bush's lawyers accused the webmaster of violating election laws because the web site was behaving like a political campaign committee without following the necessary regulations. They said that since the web site was urging voters not to vote for Bush, the site's owner should be required to file as a PAC and disclose his funding sources.
Bush's campaign also threatened the site's owner with a copyright violation lawsuit for lifting photographs from Bush's official campaign site and modifying them, then posting them on his own parody web site.