Economic Quotes

"I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price"

Norman Granz, Musician

"Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order"

Hans Kung, Theologian

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

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing"

John Perkins, Economist

"This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that"

John Perkins, Economist

"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough"

Norman Granz, Musician

"If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible"

John Shadegg, Politician

"Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country"

Jon Porter, Politician

"The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"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"

Alan Autry, Actor

"The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic"

Ric Keller, Politician

"Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested"

Hervey Allen, Author

"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization"

David Korten, Activist

"Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated"

Eamon de Valera, Statesman

"Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another"

Iris Chang, Historian

"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces"

Iris Chang, Historian

"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"

Iris Chang, Historian

"The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security"

Carl Levin, Politician

"Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation"

Carl Levin, Politician

"If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies"

Carl Levin, Politician

"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes"

Boris Trajkovski, Statesman

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