English Parliament Quotes
… procuring offices for persons who were unfit, and unworthy of them … squandering away the public treasure
He had not committed any felonies, but these charges were laid under the concept of “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
English Parliament, Articles of Impeachment of the Duke of Suffolk, 1450
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This appears to be the earliest use of the phrase which was “borrowed” by the founding fathers in the writing of the U. S. Constitution.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
He and the other commissioners of both political parties were agreed that the procurement by The State Department, USAID, and especially the Defense Department which spent the most was terrible. The even had military generals in charge of billions of dollars of procurement who did not even know the procurement laws and regulations they were supposed to obey much less the skill of good procurement.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
He was a conservative, Republican Congressman from Georgia when he made this statement complaining about the wast of mmoney by Federal Officials and bureaucrats. The thing that made this common complaint memorable is that several years later, he was appointed by President Donald Trump as Secretary of Health and Human Services. In less than a year in the office, he was forced to resign [fired] in disgrace for wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars chartering private airplanes for himself and his staff including one where he spent $25,000 to charter a plane from Washington DC to Philadelphia -- a two hour drive in his government car, less than $100 for the Amtrak train or $10 by the Greayhound bus. The scandal that erupted was made worse by the hypocricy.
The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England, existing from the early 14th century until 1707, when it united with the Parliament of Scotland to become the Parliament of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain.
