Bob Dole Quotes

Corporate welfare bums.

I know the ugly history of corporate welfare, and that's not New York City's future.

I want to get rid of corporate welfare.

The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.

Far too many well-connected businesses are feeding at the federal trough. By addressing corporate welfare as well as other forms of welfare, we would add a whole new level of understanding to the notion of entitlement reform.

We have a class of welfare in America—lawyers and others who can't imagine how they would make a living without a monthly check from Chrysler, Toshiba or whatever.

... the most egregious form of corporate welfare imaginable.

I have always opposed subsidies to private corporations.

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nation's largest corporations.

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

New Jersey is not going to give the money earned by average taxpayers to millionaire sports owners and give government subsidies to sports teams.

We have the spectacle, still to be seen today, of the western rancher who accepts federal aid for his cattle operations and federal aid for his grazing requirements, but bitterly opposes all social programs that do not concern him, and the philosophy that lies behind them.

We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, where we put people in bondage so they can't be all that they're capable of being.

Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with tax breaks. And companies that relocate their headquarters are often not meaningful job creators.

Like so many large companies in the U.S., Monsanto has prospered in large part due to U.S. taxpayer-funded programs and services.

Ex-Im Bank doles out billions of dollars of loans and insurance subsidies every year and has become the poster child for corporate cronyism in Washington. Think of the bank as food stamps for America's Fortune 500 companies.

I'm against corporate welfare.

There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.