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  • I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address on the Federal Budget in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 19, 1932), as quoted in "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932" (p. 809), 1938.
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