Public Investment

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or investment:

    A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
    Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

    The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)