"It's only the taxpayers money, so why should we care?"?

Question

What President displayed his disdain for the US taxpayer with this comment?----

"Let's forget about the silly, foolish,old Dollar Sign"

At issue was,say, a "kitty" of $1,000,000,000 for the President to disperse to the foreign governments of his choice.

Answer 1

The tone of this statement makes me think that it was Clinton or Carter.

But I would like to know for sure.


Well now that is really interesting, Franklin Roosevelt.

But still a liberal democrat!!!!!

Answer 2

That would be when Franklin D. Roosevelt first told the American public about Lend-Lease in a radio broadcast on 17th December, 1940.

Answer 3

I would love to see that in writing. Have a reliable source?

I know he said, as I heard him, his constituency is "the have, and the have mores"! He has certainly kept that promise!

Clinton had a balanced budget and no additional deficit when he left Michael, unlike Bush and his 3 1/2 Trillion in additional debt and budgets that don't come close to being balanced!

Answer 4

Wasn't that FDR?

I think it was in response to the banking crisis going on at the time - so you're grossly misrepresenting his quote...and I'm confused by your first remark in quotes, are you saying he said that too?