"But all those stories you've heard about $400 hammers and $6,000 -- or $3,000 coffeepots -- they just aren't true. First of all, the $400 hammer: We'd bought 22,000 hammers for between $6.75 and $7.50, and this one hammer was in an invoice submitted to the Navy with a whole list of things. And a bright-eyed Navy fellow saw that $400 hammer, and it was never bought. They adjusted the invoice. And this is the type of thing you've been hearing. And about that $3,000 coffeepot, no. That's an entire hot-food system for those transport planes of ours that will be carrying in time of emergency 365 military personnel, and it's the same kind of thing that is in all of the commercial planes that we ride in today. And we're getting them for about a hundred dollars less than the commercial airlines are paying for them. So, if you've been listening to the propaganda, believe us when we say we need to keep on doing what we're doing."
Ronald Reagan, February 12, 1986