Economic Quotes

Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

I'’m generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn’t always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

I don't find the idea of sewing degrading. A thing is degrading when you are forced to do it, through economic reasons or through slavery or some other form of compulsion.

But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

The economic base of that rural Oregon area used to be manufacturing and logging. And that went away and they feel nobody has been speaking to them and finally Donald Trump has spoken to them.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

It's normal that countries work for their own benefit, political and economic.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.