Public Expenditure Committee

Famous quotes containing the words public, expenditure and/or committee:

“Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)