Economic Quotes

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

How much you discipline your mind to step out of its routines and look into new ways of doing things that you haven't yet adopted, is what will determine your economic potential.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

I would be strongly committed to working with the FOMC to continue promoting a robust economic recovery ... I consider it imperative that we do what we can to promote a very strong recovery.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry - profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof - but it's a massive burden on the rest of the economy.

Inflation is not only unnecessary for economic growth. As long as it exists it is the enemy of economic growth.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

... the best way to help the poor is to promote economic growth and job creation

I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

I am not confident that Europe can make it.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

What new psychology suggests, it's the factor that is top of consciousness at the moment before you make that economic decision that will win the day.

We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.