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Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

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

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

I am not confident that Europe can make it.

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space?

I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.

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

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

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.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

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

I don't worry about new home sales

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade.

If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.

If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.