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In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

In the South China Sea and underneath the South China Sea, of course, there's a lot of raw materials. There are very rich fishing grounds there, so there are some economic concerns in the South China Sea as well.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're now regaining it slowly and painfully.

I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

I spend about fifteen minutes a year on economic analysis.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to have to find value in interacting with the sharing economy on many levels. And this hybrid system that's already emerging among millennials is going to be a mature system where, by midcentury, part of the day will be in the capitalist market, part of the day in the sharing economy, depending on your marginal costs.

I think I could have a funnier, more economic sets. But that's the comedy I do. And I understand if people aren't interested in it and would rather listen to someone else. But I'll never understand the anger people have toward me.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

I think what we need is goodwill because now our struggle is harder because it is an economic struggle. And now Europe is organising itself. So I think there needs to be a rupture between Africa and Europe, and all the international laws being conceived here in the west have to be revisited and changed.

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

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet.

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.