“Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers. While we need not give credence to these stories, they allow our imagination to speculate on how visitors from outer space would judge us. I am afraid they would be stupefied at our conduct. They would observe that for death planning we spend billions to create engines and strategies for war. They would also observe that we spend millions to prevent death by disease and other causes. Finally they would observe that we spend paltry sums for population planning, even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet. Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain.”

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 2, Tools of Positive Analysis, p. 24-25

Source: Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964), p. 240

The Emperor's Old Clothes
Context: [About Algol 60 subset implementation] [E]very occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to - they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law.

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 3, “Words Scientists Don’t Use: At Least Not the Way You Do” (p. 46)

Speaking in 1987, from Medicaid for All Would 'Bankrupt the Nation,' Warns Bernie Sanders—In 1987 http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/14/bernie-sanders-medicaid-for-all-bankrupt by Peter Suderman, Reason.com (14 September 2017)
1980s

Hansard, 6 ser, vol 308 col 111 (17 March 1998)
From the 1998 Budget speech.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

From De Profundis
Context: But we of the rich plain of sweet airs and pure,
Oh! Death would take so much from us, how should we not fear?

Source: A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety