Earl Blumenauer Quotes

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

The federal contribution to our state for education has gone from 3.9 percent to 4.4 percent. The federal government may be a contributor but this is hardly a partnership.

If you go to go to countries in Europe or Asia or even Canada, even with all the Internet and cable TV and satellite, public systems tend to be the most popular stations in the countries. In some countries like Norway and Germany, public stations are, if anything, more popular than ever as people see what Rupert Murdoch's got in store for them in the commercial stations.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.

The current public television and radio system in the United States, while it's better than nothing, that's about the best you can say about it. It's nowhere near the standard it needs to be for our society, and we've got to make a commitment to rethink the system altogether. You know, just giving more money to what exists on PBS now would be not great; we've got to have a new vision of PBS.

The Single Mothers Program is something I would love to start if I'm fortunate enough to make it to the NBA and things like that.

I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while living on benefits.

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.

Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.

I'm not opposed to the idea of helping regions that are struggling to get a reasonable fraction of federal research spending.

Unemployment relief from The CARES Act - a popular and bipartisan solution - was a key lifeline not just for our families but also for small businesses.

I'd love to work with children. I've set up the charity, and that's going well. We've got a lot of projects we're doing in Somalia, so I'd like to see how we're doing there.

Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.

With public television, they're making things that aren't driven by advertisers. They're one of the only platforms where we can really mine for truth.

I used to work in public health, and the issues were sustainability, how the funds were being delineated, and if the funds were actually helping the people we think they're helping.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

I was on the dole.

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.

I want Britain to be that kind of opportunity society where the Government is your friend, working with you, enabling rather than holding you back, intentionally or not.

Let me make it very clear. There are no taxpayer funds going to the Adani mine.

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

In 1978, '79, if you were unemployed, you didn't have an phone, you didn't have a big-screen TV, you didn't have air-conditioned house, and you weren't guaranteed to be eating three meals a day. You had welfare, you had unemployment, but you didn't have the kind of government support system/safety nets that exist today. So that's a difference. But today the economic circumstances really no different.

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.