Get Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy…

— Sergei Lavrov

Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable…

— Charles Koch

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

— Andrew Scheer

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

— Sebastian Kurz

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Thomas Sowell

“Americans have perfected the questionable art of what Suzann Mettler, a professor at Cornell University calls "the submerged state." -- making government policies invisible…

— Anu Partanen

In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost. No, we will not do it at…

— Vladimir Putin

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.

— Mohammad bin Salman

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

— Ronald Reagan

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition…

— John Kasich