Economic Quotes

Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

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.

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

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.

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

I'm for economic independence.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today.

Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.