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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 confident that Europe can make it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

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

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

If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

I had an economic system imposed on me.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.

I, like everybody else, have lost most of my pension plan in this economic crash. So I have to. I'm going to call it I Slept With Everyone On Television.

I'm for economic independence.

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

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.