Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?

I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away.

In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

I firmly believe a rising tide lifts all boats. I think having Airbus only grows and brings more attention to Alabama's entire aerospace and aviation industry. Listen, my goal is to bring good-paying jobs to our state and our region, regardless of what the company may be.

Homeland Security money ought not to be allocated on a pork barrel basis.

If we just charged everyone one percent of the value of contracts they execute, that is all the money we would need for operating our government.

Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them — take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

Socialism is a wonderful form of government until you run out of other people’s money.

You have got to be willing to pay for the government you want.

People who receive mortgage tax relief … do not consider themselves to be benefits of government largess and can thus blithely talk about the government as something irrelevant to their lives except as a tax burden.

Government can’t work if lawmakers don’t give Government agencies the funds they need to do their work.

When I was first honoured with a call into the Service of my Country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed. And being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments, which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the Executive Department; and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the Station in which I am placed, may, during my continuance in it, be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.

We need a massive investment in infrastructure in this country.