Dick Thornburgh Quotes

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

I think $100 at the end of the year doesn't mean a lot to me, but $100 from everyone in the state at the end of the year could mean lots of programs that could be good for Hawaii.

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

I'm a product of Federal spending.

The thing that the government does very well is to write checks. Get rid of all the bureaucracy and programs and just write check [to the poor].

Infrastructure done right can help working people; infrastructure done wrong is just more money for private equity.

No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

Provision of facilities to the masses is linked with the collection of taxes.

I would rather have the costs of consumer goods and restaurants - products we as consumers can choose to buy or not buy - go up and the need for public services go down.

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

There are some templates that are in place for bipartisan investment in ways to make our economy stronger and ways to lift the middle class and help the vulnerable.

Crowdfunding companies like GoFundMe are in themselves not evil. But the fact that we have to rely on them to pay for our basics is.

The fact is, Canada needs investment, particularly in infrastructure.

I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.

Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.

I don't go to the federal government and say, 'Fund my program.'

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

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.

All my adult life, I have lived with Labour lies about tax cuts. Their cry is always the same. Tax cuts are impossible in a civilised society. They mean less revenue for the state, which means sacked teachers, unemployed doctors, fewer nurses. I am amazed anyone still takes such arrant twaddle seriously.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Whether we realize it or not, we benefit from the work of public-sector employees and our state, county and municipal governments every day.

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.

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 worse for them.

I know that there are many excellent arguments for a universal form of basic income. Since everyone would get it, it would remove the stigma that dogs recipients of assistance and 'entitlements'.