Michael Chertoff Quotes

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

I'm a product of Federal spending.

The CSSF and Prosperity Fund are making lives better, both at home and abroad.

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

If we can have a surge in Bagdad, why can’t we have a surge here at home.

Guaranteed income schemes can take various forms, but in the simplist the government sends every citizen an annual check in an amount sufficient to keep the worlf from the door when misfortune strikes, but not large enough to satisfy anyone's idea of a good life.

Nobody believes in the CHIP program more than I. I invented it. I was the one who wrote it.

We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.

My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in Thailand, rural development.

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

I'm not someone who funds buildings. That doesn't interest me. I'm more interested in programs.

Within New York City and state, families in need face a confusing hodgepodge of supplemental rental assistance programs, many of which are ineffective individually and all of which are clearly ineffective in the aggregate.

We're going to rebuild Puerto Rico with money that we saved from the IRS in a Robin Hood fashion.