On the public record
Every politician on the site, every statement on file. Search, filter, and read the public record.
87,700+·quotes on file
The American people should understand that current expenditure on strictly military activities of the Army and Navy constitutes the largest military budget of any nation in the world today and at a time when there is less real danger of…
We hope to save materially on naval expenditures by international agreement on naval arms.
Our whole situation is certainly modified by the Kellogg Pact.
The hope of tax reduction lies in large degree in our ability to economize on the military and naval expenditure and still maintain adequate defense.
In the matter of Army outlay, I am in agreement with the Secretary of War to set up within the General Staff a commission of leading Army officers to reconsider our whole Army program, to see what services and other outlays have become…
BY INVENTING the electric lamp Mr. Edison did vastly more than provide a new lamp.
He removed an untold burden of toil from the backs of men and women for all time.
Oh, yes, it runs into several millions.
The 1926 expenditures on Army, Navy, public works, and Post Office deficit is $790 million.
We will probably have some compensation in the reduction of public debts and some other items.
I hope to name new commissions for the whole of the next 4 years, for to me it is the necessary step in determining the fact on any public question, and the only basis of constructive action is to be found in the first determination of the…
The normal Post Office deficit is increased by the lower rates, increased wages and decreased hours of employment.
I will recommend to Congress in the next session, or as soon as they reconvene, that the Federal Government should contribute to the indemnification of those people whose actual fruit, et cetera, has been destroyed through Federal…
I am just taking that as a right--as many as I like.
Those of 1929 fiscal year were just about an even billion, and for 1933 it is estimated at $1,148 million.
The burden for the fiscal year 1930 will apparently be at least $150 million.
There need be no delay in any necessary action.
The character building influence of clean sports is such that they deserve every encouragement, and besides that, I should have been glad of the opportunity to welcome these fine young men visiting our shores.