I've been around enough to realise that there are two things that once people have them, they don't want to give up,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound… — Bob Simon Copy Share Image
My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, you can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you… — Thomas Massie Copy Share Image
Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks… — Dan Benishek Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while distorting free… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in… — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
The Senate is now considering increasing government subsidies for corn growers to produce more ethanol. If we produce enough ethanol we can… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We talk a lot in Congress about how we're going to encourage more development in renewables, and we put in place a… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
There are five different ways you can do it. You can do it through not giving them the subsidy that we pay… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is… — George Will Copy Share Image
These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
We are committed to keeping the Internet open and free, and we are now advocating for the federal government to make subsidies… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen… — John Pugsley 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
The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
