Economic Quotes

"I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"One cannot have economic growth without security"

John Bruton, Politician

"The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China"

John Bruton, Politician

"But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level"

John Bruton, Politician

"A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence"

John Bruton, Politician

"Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

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

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"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"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice"

Harry S. Truman, President

"I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

"I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system"

Al Gore, Vice President

"For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"We are in the midst of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth"

Greta Thunberg, Environmentalist

"The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past"

Martin Feldstein, Economist

"But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

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