Opportunity Quote by Nicholas Kristof

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

— 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 to question…

— Kofi Annan

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

— Mohammad bin Salman

Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away…

— Najib Razak

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on…

— Narendra Modi

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

— James Cook

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

— James Dale Davidson

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the…

— David Cameron

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

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.

— Peter Thomas Bauer

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

— Jacqueline Novogratz