My concern about inflation, my determination to reduce wasteful Government spending would compel me to veto the public works appropriations bill.

I have a deep commitment to controlling unnecessary spending and also controlling inflation.

I herewith report 30 deferrals of fiscal year 1979 funds totalling $1,178.2 million.

I believe that this is unacceptable in a nation where all levels of government spend ever-increasing amounts of money for education while getting less results in the actual performance of our students.

I can stand here and say with good conscience that President Ford stands for the little taxpayer and President Ford is against the big tax spender.

Jerry Ford is for the little taxpayer, and he is opposed to the big tax spender.

I have held the line on Government spending with 66 vetoes and saved you, the hard-pressed American taxpayer, $9 billion.

I am for the little taxpayer and I am against the big tax spender.

I held the line on Government spending with 66 vetoes and saved you, the hard-pressed taxpayers of this country, about $9 billion-plus.

I have held the line on Government spending with 66 vetoes and saved the hard-pressed American taxpayers more than $9 billion.

I am today announcing the details of an additional $115 million increment to this fiscal year's budget for energy research and development.

While we cannot precisely forecast future costs, we do know that if our disaster experiences in the next 12 months are the same as last year, this bill would add $800 million to the Federal budget.

States currently paying higher benefits would be encouraged to continue to do so by Federal assumption of any new costs involved.

And there are times when he must have the strength to say 'no' for the sake of the American taxpayer.

I intend to resist the kind of spending that drives up taxes or drives up prices.

Proposals, no matter how attractive, must be paid for, and when spending is proposed that takes us beyond full employment balance, that payment must either be in the form of new taxes or rising prices.

I propose that $6 billion in Federal funds be authorized and appropriated over the next three years to provide the full Federal share of a $12 billion program of waste treatment facilities.

I have requested in my 1972 budget $2.45 billion for the programs of the Environmental Protection Agency.