Herbert Hoover actually said...

"It is important that there should be a great effort on the part of such organizations to discourage every form of increased Federal expenditure and to themselves withhold projects, even though meritor..."

"This is a time when the other organizations of the country should realize that this is not an occasion for the increase but rather for the decrease of Federal expenditure."

"For some background and perhaps amusement, I was interested in a proposal to revive the Council of National Defense as a service in the present situation."

"The main interest in this table is the fact that it discloses how largely these bills arise from pressures of group and sectional interests."