Economic Growth Quotes - Page 4

• There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

  Gray Davis

  California, America, Years

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• Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Achievement, Innovation

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• Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

  John Podhoretz

  Hurt, Growth, Steps

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• Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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• In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

  Tom Vilsack

  Keys, Years, Office

  "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, Two

  "USDA Accomplishments in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2011.

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• If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

  James C. Collins

  Mean, Power, Greatness

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

  Jacques Delors

  Thinking, People, Growth

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• Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

  Max Levchin

  Technology, Perfect, Growth

  "Bartiromo: Yelp's Max Levchin sees mobile as path to growth". Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Strong, Growth, Typical

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• The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Views, Ideas

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• The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Growth, World

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• ...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Growth, Balance, Important

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.96, Best Books on

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• In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

  Ken Blackwell

  Government, Order, Growth

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• I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

  Stephane Dion

  Country, Justice, Growth

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• I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Years, America, Growth

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• 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

  Hands, Growth, Links

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• Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

  Helen Clark

  Ecosystems, Growth, Economic

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• I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

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• This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Rose, Political

  "Income Inequality’s Ripple Effect". www.politico.com. December 09, 2013.

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• Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Hope, Fear

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Presidential address: State of the Union, Monday, January 25, 1988”

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• We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

  Mike Farrell

  Growth, Earning, Economic

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• I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite

  Rob Hopkins

  Opposites, Growth, World

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