Economic Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.

Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Money is economic power.

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.