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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence in Afghanistan. The Afghans can't point and say, "Oh, the Americans built that road. They built that telecommunications facility. They built that electricity powerhouse," because nothing has been built so far.

The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

There are all sorts of shades of gray when you're working on economic policy and tax policy and health care policy. There's no gray on this issue, to me. This is a gun lobby that is raging out of control, that doesn't even represent its own members.

There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.

There are two economic realities in America in 2016. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

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

There cannot be prosperity without security.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

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

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels have economic value as well as obvious value for our health and our well-being and our survival. In fact, as you know, the economic revolution in renewable fuels has been impressive. It really had not been anticipated.

There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.

There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.

These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

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

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side

The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

The successful human being is adaptable. We have to adapt to changes in weather. We have to adapt to changes in climate. We have to adapt to changing economic circumstances. People that don't have the flexibility to adapt or who are afraid of change or who oppose it are going to be left behind.

The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organi­zation is the province of economists. Inter­nal organization is the concern of organization theory specialist. And never the twain shall meet.

The United States is the nation of innovation. And we have the best innovators, really, in the world. Our international property is one of our huge national economic assets. Yes, so to the extent that some are seeking to infiltrate our network, steal that information, not to have invest in the research and development that goes into innovation, that's a really big deal.

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.