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We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.

We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.

We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.

What animates me in politics are the economic issues of opportunity.

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.

What I know is that if you put the right policies in place that will lead to economic growth, society will be better.

When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.

What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civil, social and economic, and broadly cultural, to adopt the framework of the Universal Declaration that is formally endorsed but constantly undermined.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.

When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.

What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

When I introduced my economic plan for the first time, people had mixed views because it's the largest cut in the history of Israeli budgets. We have a big deficit caused by the fact that the former government took upon itself too many obligations.

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not roll out the welcome mat for unemployed Americans.

When the economic pie grows larger, it's always possible for everyone to have a larger slice than before. So it's really in all of our interest to make the economic pie larger by eliminating waste whenever and wherever possible.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.

When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist, since there is no single standard to which all 'reputable' economists must repair.

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

Without a doubt, the prospects (of China-US economic and trade relationship) are bright.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.