"[Tax] dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good — things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not."
— Sarah Palin

January 1, 1970

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Referring to a $211,000 USDA study seeking ways to better control Bactrocera oleae, which is harmful to American agriculture.