Public Investment Quotes

Especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted tribal communities, we must invest in infrastructure in order to advance economic recovery and create much-needed jobs.

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'

Literally every single sliver of technology that makes the iPhone a smartphone instead of a stupidphone - internet, GPS, touchscreen, battery, hard drive, voice recognition - was developed by researchers on the government payroll.

Taxpayers across the U.S. have invested hundreds of billions of dollars building our nation's infrastructure, and that investment should be protected.

We've spent more than 200 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to protect the Liverpool Plains.

FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure, like roads and bridges.

Remember that every dollar spent by the federal government is spent in somebody's district.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation.

When you’re spending 24 billion dollars in pork barrel transportation projects how can you go to the American people and talk about tax increases.

I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

The corporate welfare state derived from an approach to economic development which worships at the shrine of the gross national product.

Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.

The market economy does not automatically guarantee growth, social justice, or even economic efficiency; achieving those ends requires that government play an important role.

I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.

Subsidizing someone's rent is much cheaper than paying for new housing, police or medical responses, or hospital or jail stays.

I often use the iPhone as an example of how governments shape markets, because what makes the iPhone ‘smart’ and not stupid is what you can do with it. And yes, everything you can do with an iPhone was government-funded. From the Internet that allows you to surf the Web, to GPS that lets you use Google Maps, to touch screen display and even the SIRI voice activated system - all of these things were funded by Uncle Sam through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NASA, the Navy, and even the CIA!

Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Government can't do everything, but there is a role for government and smart policy, especially in equalizing opportunities for folks.

To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action.

We believe that government in Britain should improve the quality of people's lives and improve the quality of our public services in every local community.

The cohesive power of public plunder.

An unexpected pregnancy in a poor household often becomes a public burden down the road. Studies show that a public investment of $1 for family planning saves $4 in future costs like food stamps and other public assistance.