Economic Policy Quotes - Page 4

• We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, Years, Two

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• Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

  Tim Scott

  Fairness, Workplace, Economic

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• People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.

  Bill Hicks

  Children, Believe, People

  "Shock and Awe". Live album by Bill Hicks, recorded in November 11, 1992 at The Oxford Playhouse, 2003.

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• The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

  John Pilger

  Dream, War, Party

  "Breaking the great Australian silence". John Pilger's speech at the Sydney Opera House to mark his award of the Sydney Peace Prize, johnpilger.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."

  John Vaillant

  Chaos, Economic, Policy

  "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival". Book by John Vaillant, August 24, 2010.

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• Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Insecure, Night, Blue

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Feb 17, 2016

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• The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

  Adolf Hitler

  Confused, Men, Years

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Peace, Discovery, Choices

  "Years of the Modern". Book by by J.W. Chase, 1949.

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• Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

  Robert Solow

  Ignorance, Doe, Economics

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• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Government, Worthwhile Things, Years

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.

  Jeroen van der Veer

  Creating, Government, Support

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• Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court appointments and Rove-style politics, we're coming in there to shake things up!

  Tom Toles

  Issues, Style, Energy

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• Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

  Jay Carney

  Records, Economic, Certain

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• We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Cutting, Labor Laws, Reform

  "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lalli Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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• My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Debt, Opponents, Economic

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• We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Years, Politics

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• The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.

  Wright Patman

  Past, Two, Politics

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• The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in order to be strong enough to control their own government.

  Ndabaningi Sithole

  Wisdom, Strong, Government

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• 'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

  Alan Blinder

  Law, Influence, Economics

  "New ball game, same old team" by Faisal Islam, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

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• I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created.

  Romano Prodi

  Impossible, Introducing, Economic

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• When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.

  Carly Fiorina

  Clueless, Speech, Financial

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.

  Ilham Aliyev

  Leadership, Country, Successful

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• The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole, following freer economic policies. Most of these states have freer government and less restrictions on trade.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Government, Unions

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Keys, Europe, Eras

  "Welcome to Euroland" by Alex Brummer, Mark Milner, Martin Walker, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 1999.

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• I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Littles, Satisfaction, Arguing

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