Jill Stein Quotes

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

The American people are willing to invest their money (taxes) in things that work.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

The American people want more from government than they are willing to pay for in taxes.

We pay a price as taxpayers when we don’t let our acquisition workforce get the same top-level training that private industry’s people have.

Education's net economic benefits are greater than many other investments.

My goal is to give our taxpayers greater access and visibility into how their taxpayer dollars are being spent.

At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.

You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money from important social services and public and higher education.

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.

In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad. The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.

Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.

We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.