"Ford has so far avoided going into bankruptcy protection, or even needing state support, " he said.
But it is far from clear that trains deserve the state support they get.
So when should a leader speak up first to state support for an initiative?
Rival airport Bristol has raised concerns that Cardiff would unfairly benefit from state support.
Iran is reckoned to have 1.7m homeless women, 1m of them without any state support.
European banks, such as HSBC, that have got there without state support have rightly been applauded.
And I know that the combination of both federal and state support makes a big difference.
Sheldon Silver, speaker of the New York State Assembly, threatened to withhold state support from Columbia.
It now has nearly 70, two-thirds of them private institutions, receiving little or no state support.
Abrupt cuts in state support and corruption in management are familiar enough from other Russian cultural institutions.
Universities cannot accept all the people who apply because most of their students are entitled to state support.
Total aid packages for Greece, together with European member state support, is 110 million over the next three years.
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And how was that shift related to the decline in state support and federal support of public higher education?
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Even with state support, regional cybershopping is not expected to flourish for years.
In Italy, the high level of public debt means the government could not afford much by way of state support.
France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have mountains of debt and feeble share prices, but are protected by implicit state support.
And this is just the peak of what has been a long-term trend in reduced state support for higher education.
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Few have anything like the same level of state support, yet many have comparable levels of home ownership and housing affordability.
If these companies are as good as they boast they are, then they no longer need the crutch of state support.
Lhota has said the hikes were necessary because of inadequate state support and rising costs the agency couldn't contain, such as pensions.
It is too easy to pass the test that determines whether a film is sufficiently British to be worthy of state support.
There is no question of Michael staying here permanently or of him claiming any state support whilst he is here, she said.
This week, for example, President Dmitry Medvedev averred that Russia will not accept any restrictions on state support of agricultural producers.
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Ms Merkel said that an investor would "of course have state support".
Total state support to Chinese farmers has more than doubled since 2004.
And in fighting terrorist organizations one of the most effective approaches is denying them bases of operation and denying them their state support.
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Only then did we look at the supply-side options, evaluating utility programs, potential state support, and what would work best with our building design.
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Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself.
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The bankruptcy is a milestone because, until now, China's larger struggling solar companies have been kept afloat by cheap credit and indirect state support.
Mr Duncan Smith wants to ensure benefit claimants are not made worse off by working and make state support conditional on willingness to work.
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