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We need to block dirty diesels getting public money - no question there.
Caroline Lucas / Former Member Of The European Parliament
Block
Public Money
No Question
Question
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Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
Antony Gormley / Sculptor
Committees
Public Money
Individuals
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Chester A. Arthur / 21St U.s. President
Evil
Expenditures
Extravagant
People
Public Money
Money Value People
Public
Expenditure
Measured
Taxed
Value
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If the government is injecting public money, it should also take the right to oversee board appointments, executive pay, and future business operations.
John Mcdonnell /
Appointments
Operations
Public Money
Board
Executive
Oversee
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It makes no sense economically that public money goes to help foreign workers and migrants in a region where unemployment is higher than national average.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen /
Average
Public Money
Unemployment
Workers
Economically
No Sense
Region
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The Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement were both, in a sense, complaining about the same thing, namely the use of public money to rescue failed banks.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Complaining
Public Money
Rescue
Tea Party
Tea Party Movement
Banks
Failed
Namely
Occupy
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Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.
Lucy Powell / British Politician
Cost
Public Money
Shrinking
Spending
Term
Time Money Great
Great Deal
Recession
Save
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We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
Davy Crockett / Soldier
Money
Appropriate
Charity
Congress
Members
Please
Public Money
Much
Away
Own
Public
Dollar
Give
Individuals
Right
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Brexit, for all its likely harms, represents an opportunity to pay landowners and tenants to do something completely different, rather than spending yet more public money on trashing our life-support systems.
George Monbiot / Writer
Public Money
Brexit
Systems
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In the 1920s prohibition in the US notoriously failed to tackle alcohol use, led to lethal forms of liquor entering the black market, fuelled organised crime and its associated violence, and wasted public money.
Owen Jones / Columnist
Alcohol
Black
Crime
Entering
Liquor
Organised
Prohibition
Public Money
Violence
Associated
Forms
Public
Lethal
Failed
Wasted
Led
Market
Tackle
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Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
Roger Ailes / Television Producer
Basketball
Golf
Play
Public Money
Wish
Had
Life Time Money
Obama
Does
Attend
Public
Often
Earned
His
Penny
Play Basketball
Worked
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For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.
Nicholas Kristof /
Construction
Feeding
Housing
Public Money
Trump
Wealth
Family Business Money
Criticisms
Empire
Fred
Programs
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Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.
Richard Flanagan / Novelist
Aboriginal
Federal Government
Impetus
Ongoing
Programmes
Public Money
Large Amounts
Organisations
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Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
Jennifer Granholm / Former Governor Of Michigan
Home
Borrowed
Break
Cities
Executives
Forfeit
Free Stuff
Officers
Public Money
School
Tax
Asked
Funds
Million
Police Officers
Roads
Schools
Taking
Tax Break
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It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th U.s. President
Government
Application
Country
Felony
Other Countries
Public Money
Punishment
Seems
Severe
Public
Countries
Early
Enactment
Officer
Private
Proper
Similar
Uses
Visited
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I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money.
Nicholas Kristof /
Finance
Providing
Public Money
Skills
Business Money Government
Business Money Finance
Bonds
Capital
Invest
Context
For Example
Potentially
Rethink
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If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed ourselves, while changing the way the remaining land is farmed. Instead, governments almost everywhere pour public money into planetary destruction.
George Monbiot / Writer
Amount
Climate
Destruction
Ecological
Land
Public Money
Everywhere
Almost
Changing
Feed
Governments
Instead
Planetary
Pour
Prevent
Remaining
Task
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