Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I do not propose eliminating Federal aid to highways, but I do ask that such aid be restored to approximately the pre-depression figures.

The estimates have been developed after analysis of the revenues, obligations, and reasonable needs of the Government.

The result is that the President and the Director of the Budget arrive at a figure for each department and agency which they believe to be t...

If the forecast of tax receipts made by these experts show that the departmental estimates of expenditures will exceed the estimated tax rec...