Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I agree, absolutely. It also extends even far into our agricultural aspects. Never before in the world have we seen less aspects of poverty. Today the lowest aspects around the world are poverty; and at the same time, we see the lowest incidence of hunger. How is that possible? It is the entrepreneurial farmer. We reproduce more that we can supply around the world. And what do they need? They need abundant energy. They need abundant water. All of these things are plausible because, once again, it is the entrepreneur who actually solves these problems, not the government. If the government can give all, it can take all; and it has done so, whether it be the Soviet Union, whether it be Mao's China, or whether it be the Venezuela experiment that is going dramatically wrong today. It never works because you eventually run out of everybody else's money.”