Economic Growth Quotes - Page 5

• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Growth, Battle, Littles

  "Hamas Pushing for Lead Role in a New Gaza" by James Bennet, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2005.

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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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• The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth. Now that businesses have begun to add to payrolls, the current expansion is self-reinforcing. Only external shocks, such as terrorist attacks or a surge in oil prices, could derail the recovery.

  Sung Won Sohn

  Recovery, Self, Oil

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• Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

  Earl Browder

  Political, Growth, Way

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• The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

  Shinzo Abe

  Japan, Sea, Competition

  "Japan’s New Leader Takes On Old Order to Jolt Economy" by Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  Mac Thornberry

  Growth, Progress, Quality

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• The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.

  Gary Cohn

  Views, Growth, Way

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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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• Oil is a very important component of economic growth.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Oil, Growth, Important

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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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• The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Love, Keys, Two

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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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• 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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• Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Play, Growth, Important

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• In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

  Tim Bishop

  Block, Cutting, Innovation

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• Corporations are mandated, in effect, to 'grow or die,' a rule also called 'the growth imperative.'

  Michele Simon

  Growth, Corporations, Economic

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• We want a strong, growing economy

  John Baird

  Strong, Growth, Growing

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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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• Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

  Francois Bourguignon

  Country, Growth, Progress

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• 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.

  Joan Robinson

  Growth, Economic, Terrible

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• High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.

  Edmund Muskie

  Dream, Rivers, Water

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• One cannot have economic growth without security.

  John Bruton

  Growth, Economic, Security

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

  Helen Clark

  Ecosystems, Growth, Economic

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