Best 694 quotes in «economic quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

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

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

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

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

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.

Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in American history. The Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and '86. And the same thing can happen here again. Democrats just cannot let it.

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.

Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as is his wont, and essentially linked the call to Taiwan with a whole series of things he doesn't like about Chinese economic and foreign policies and implied that the U.S. views of the status of Taiwan are now up for negotiation, that he wants them to be part of a broader negotiation with China about a whole series of economic and foreign policy issues. So, we just don't really know what exactly they're planing to do with this.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.