Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We'll reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies and ask more from the wealthiest seniors. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises,… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
Poland does not want to remain a net recipient of EU subsidies forever. On the contrary: we want the right to develop… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making… — Kevin Watkins Copy Share Image
Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
It is righteous to receive state subsidies to make films that criticise the state - I want Japanese people to accept such… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Taken together, these subsidies distort behaviour and trade in unhelpful ways. They have created products that make no economic sense in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks,… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Subsidies and grants throw off the natural market signals that are supposed to allow students to make informed decisions on the true… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
While Donald Trump was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how to keep living like a billionaire, and all the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Cross-subsidies are the essence of the phrase “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” That means that one way or another… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
“the Bush energy act contained some $6 billion in oil and gas subsidies and $9 billion in coal subsidies. The Kochs routinely… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image