Public Money Expenditure is Overwhelming Temptation

"Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn't appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." -- Calvin Coolidge

Overspend Budget? Allocation Fell Short of Expenditure

"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure." -- Keith Davis

Charles Dickens: Income Above Expenditure = Happiness

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." -- Charles Dickens in David Copperfield