Economic Quotes - Page 8

• Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

  Phil Gramm

  Government, People, Growth

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• What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, People, Decision

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• If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Business, Growth

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• We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Life, Business, Healing

  "Visions: Turkish Earthquake - an Islamic apocalyptic sign? The dream of Janet Holmes a' Court and a republican prophet - John Dunmore Lang". Interview with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. August 25, 1999.

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• For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

  John Ensign

  Encouragement, America, Leader

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• The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Interesting, Distribution Of Wealth, Way

  "Lenin's Lesson for Frequent Fliers" by Matthew C. Klein, www.bloomberg.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

  Dave Reichert

  Immigration, Reform, Borders

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• The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Design, Liberty

  "The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Chapter 5: "The Fatal Conceit", 1988.

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• The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economy, States, Enterprise

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1987). “Economics in Perspective: A Critical History”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

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• Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

  Ziggy Marley

  Gun, People, Different

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

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• We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

  Abdul Kalam

  Young Generation, Giving, India

  "Lok Sabha Debates" by India. Parliament, (p. 45), 2003.

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• The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Creating, Dollars, Debt

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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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• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  Federica Montseny

  Moral, Problem, Social

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• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  Oliver Tambo

  Country, May, Destruction

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• Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

  George Reisman

  Law, Competition, Survival

  "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.

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• Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

  Leon Kass

  Innovation, Growth, Important

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• All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Depression, Safe, Agents

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• The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

  Ali Khamenei

  Political, Plot, Disability

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• My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

  Sargent Shriver

  Struggle, Pregnancy, Hard Work

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• The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

  Michael Nesmith

  People, Internet, Resources

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

  Arianna Huffington

  Games, Literature, Toss

  "Pigs at the Trough". Book by Arianna Huffington, New York: Crown Publishers, 1st edition ed., 2003.

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• Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

  Bob Schaffer

  Growth, Burden, Reducing

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• Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

  Simon Sinek

  Emotional, Numbers, Quality

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