Economic Quotes

"Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy"

Debbie Stabenow, Politician

"It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them"

Robert Fisk, Journalist

"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"

Jung Chang, Writer

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

Tabare Vazquez, Statesman

"Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future"

Dave Freudenthal, Politician

"The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region"

Mel Martinez, Politician

"Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time"

Morris Hite, Businessman

"I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material"

Kathy Acker, Activist

"As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions"

Steve Kerr, Athlete

"We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards"

John Baldacci, Politician

"The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy"

John Baldacci, Politician

"The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence"

Jared Diamond, Author

"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century"

John Doerr, Businessman

"Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year"

Ishmael Reed, Poet

"The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability"

Jim Clyburn, Politician

"Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan"

Saxby Chambliss, Politician

"Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity"

Robert Casey, Politician

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