"I see problems there; I see a need to invest in ourselves, invest in infrastructure, invest in human capital, create greater equality of opportunity."
"The single-handed way to make America great is to invest in the black man."
"I invest in society because I want all people in that society, regardless of how they came into it, to be given some degree of equal opportunity."
"Investing in SNAP actually had a seven to one payback ratio; every dollar you put into the program gave seven dollars in taxes later."
"Investing in people, keeping them healthy, keeping them well-educated, keeping them housed decently not only is the human thing to do, it's cost-effective."
"We are committed to shifting funding from the NYPD to youth and social services."
"There is literally no better investment that you can make in our people than in childhood."
"Invest more in social programs; we won't need as many police."
"At its core has been effective governance, whether that be through housing, public savings, pro-business policies, or how it invests in its greatest asset: people."
"Real freedom is when you see that young child in North Philly and you see the potential in her."
"We must not force them into shelters and we need the state to make a much bigger investment and the city to make a much bigger investment in ending homelessness."
"I believe in investing in people, not in corporations, special interests, and political action committees."
"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced city officials cutting $100 million to $150 million from LAPD budget funds to be reinvested in communities of color."
"Social service investment is really, really great economically because it pays back."
"This chaotic situation could be used to push more green New Deal policies as the solution to any triggering event."
"Nurture groups don't just lead to improved behavior; Glasgow City Council spends 3 and a half million pounds a year on nurture groups and has been carefully monitoring the progress of children they are trying to help."
"Invest in Americans: housing, healthcare, education."
"Your lives do matter. We do care about you, but we're going to invest in you before you have problems with the police." - Barack Obama
"Invest in core relationships and friendships."
"We will invest in people who need help with healthcare and better schools and childcare."
"A healthy child is more likely to become a productive adult."
"We need to invest in our children in jobs and education, not more jails and more incarceration."
"We invest in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration."
"If we're unwilling to invest in the children of immigrants just because they don't look like us, we will diminish the prospects of our own children."
"Spending that goes beyond just maintaining the status quo and actually helps people."
"We need to invest in housing, education, mental health care, and community programs that will keep us safe, not investment in new and expensive technologies to criminalize us further."
"For every $15,000 that we spend intervening in the lives of economically and otherwise disadvantaged kids, we save $80,000 in crime-related costs down the road."
"Investing in our kids in jobs and good education rather than more jails and more incarceration."
"We need to invest in prevention rather than investing in the aftermath."
"We will get to the root causes of the problem and invest in our young people in jobs and education, not jails."
"The reality is that the answer to crime is investing in people's well-being."
"There's a great deal of investment in patriarchy that does not exclude black women."
"We need a domestic Marshall Plan... this is outrageous."
"Nobody wants to talk about the absence of societal investment in black boys."
"Education is what levels the playing field for people and we've underinvested in it for decades."
"We are going to invest in the needs of the working class of this country, trust me, I wrote the damn bill." - Bernie Sanders
"It's actually very important for a functioning economy and for a functioning democracy that people have a stake in the system."
"Rather than investing in armed cops to coerce the community through violent strong-arming, abolitionists seek to invest in community organization and safety programs that will allow us all to live safer, happier lives."
"We can invest in a way that really improves lives for millions and millions of working families."
"The next money we spend should probably be on these very simple and cheap policies."
"It's more important to invest in this and... save a lot of people from being in poverty."
"It's not only good for the bitcoiners and tourism and investing in jobs but also for energy and income to the social projects like schools or roads and bridges."
"I want to invest in social service programs first and foremost."
"It's time to reinvest in the people and I think after the pandemic that's more clear than ever."
"These are the things that require way more spending, but they actually tame the source of inflation."
"Can you afford not to [invest in youth services]?"
"The most sure-fire way to eliminate disparities is to attack the problem at its economic route by investing in healthcare, housing, and social services."
"Investing in workshops, meetups, and mentorship pays off."
"The best investment you can possibly make is investing in children and their education."
"We spend billions of dollars warehousing people, when we could be investing those dollars into healthier communities."
"What's more patriotic than investing in our own citizens?"
"If we don't invest in these children, if we don't invest in our communities, we are going to continually see stuff like that."
"Investing socially, like having virtual coffees or virtual wines with friends, is important. Change your setting to feel more social."
"We can change that on the local level, we can provide families legal assistance and make an investment upstream to stem the tide and the consequences of the cost that we reap for evictions downstream."
"The capitalization argument... tells us that we can actually make a profound difference in how well people turn out if we choose to pay attention."
"Do you want to live in a country where we make the investments we need in health care, in housing, and old age pensions, but we lack the political will to pay for them?"
"It's really important that if you want those things to happen, you need to put effort into your friendships."
"Invest in the people, and the crime will go down."
"If we could begin to invest more in these kids... the whole country would be better off economically, politically, socially, morally."
"We need to reinvest in our society to make people happy to live and be alive."
"We should invest in social programs because we care about society, not because we think it will lower health care costs."
"Could I invest my life this year in creating the common good?"
"Invest in the lives of other people, those that are poor, that are less fortunate."
"Spending on education and healthcare is generally viewed as acceptable because it's good for economic growth."
"Preventing crime by investing in youth, increasing wages, eliminating poverty."
"We're investing in things like homelessness, like addictions recovery."
"We should be funding things that make our country more pro-family."
"Instead of spending millions on borders and checking drugs, if they spent it on the NHS, education, decent housing... people would have a life."
"That money could have been spent on education or medicine or help build the renewable energy infrastructure that we're going to need to survive the coming century."
"We have to make sure that we're investing in people."