Subsidies Quotes

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

— Michael Pollan

Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

— Jeff Goodell

Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country.

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

— James Cook

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

— Rudy Giuliani

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

— Thomas Sowell

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

— Anonymous

I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

— Charles Koch

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies…

— Ron Kind

You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club.…

— Jon Stewart

If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?

— Tom Tancredo

Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually…

— Abhijit Banerjee

We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice…

— Kofi Annan

“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

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole…

— Alex North

While Donald Trump was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how to keep living like a billionaire, and all the…

— Hillary Clinton

Subsidies and grants throw off the natural market signals that are supposed to allow students to make informed decisions on the true…

— Charlie Kirk

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere.…

— Michael Pollan

You've got to move us to these technologies that allow us to get to the clean-energy source. If we can't work to…

— Lisa Murkowski

“the Bush energy act contained some $6 billion in oil and gas subsidies and $9 billion in coal subsidies. The Kochs routinely…

— Jane Mayer

President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance…

— Stephanie Cutter

Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't…

— Charles Koch

Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and…

— Robert Reich

Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million,…

— Jonathan Gruber

Do I think it would be better that people knew the atrocities that Monsanto commits or the influence of corporate money in…

— Ellen Page

People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid…

— William Howard Taft

The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for…

— Alan Bock

At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't…

— Anonymous

All subsidy measures, all schemes to redistribute income or to force Peter to support Paul, are one-eyed as well as shortsighted. They…

— Henry Hazlitt

“The next time you drive into a Walmart parking lot, pause for a second to note that this Walmart—like the more than…

— Elizabeth Warren

Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.

— Ben Sasse

We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.

— Narendra Modi

Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.

— Sebastian Kurz

I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.

— Eric Rohmer

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

— James Cook

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

— James Cook

If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.

— Elizabeth Warren