Curt Schilling Quotes

The Small Business Administration was fundamental in helping our company. There's great initiative from the government if you know the right places to look.

Who do you have coming to see you about the subsidies? Business people, no one else.

Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.

To stimulate the economy, we need to give entrepreneurs the means to create wealth.

Subsidize... or lend.

Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

I believe the private sector and small businesses drive our economy, and that means the federal government should work to ensure the private sector is as robust as possible.

No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for government fixing of prices, no resort to the Public Treasury will be of any value …

I've spent my whole life before coming to Congress as a Chamber of Commerce manager. What that means is you help start small businesses, help them grow in good times and bad.

We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.

The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces.

There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it difficult for any one person to understand it all, which often leads politicians, and citizens, too, to call for more programs. We don't need more government programs; we just need a better way to access them.

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.

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.

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

It's our job as economic developers in the state to make sure any prospect receives all available incentives.

Could we do without the social safety net, without Social Security, without Medicare, without farm subsidies, without unemployment compensation, without school lunch programs, without housing assistance? Of course we could. But we would not be a civilized society and we would not be an American nation any of us would be proud of.

The arming of a government can really only be done by another government. To be really effective, aid must be governmental.

… a giant corporate welfare program

We will assist by money from our royal treasury all those who wish to reestablish old manufactures or to undertake new ones … all the merchants and traders by sea who purchase vessels, or who build new ones, for traffic or commerce shall receive from us subsidies for each ton of merchandise which they export or import on the said voyages

Make taxes as low as possible so entrepreneurs have incentive to work hard and be creative. The human mind is the secret to economic growth.

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.