Public Spending

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or spending:

“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won’t eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)