Economic Quotes

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

All economic activity is by definition "high risk." And defending yesterday--that is, not innovating--is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

There cannot be prosperity without security.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

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.

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

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

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

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.

Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.