Economy Quotes - Page 2

• Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Capitalist Economy, Liberty, Libertarian

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• If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

  Bella Abzug

  Country, Reality, Government

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• If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

  William Bartram

  Perseverance, Animal, Order

  William Bartram (1958). “The Travels of William Bartram”, p.57, University of Georgia Press

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• Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic

  Peter L. Berger

  Thinking, People, Chinese

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• It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Wisdom, Country, People

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• Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.

  Hannah More

  Practice, Understanding, Sound

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• There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Understanding, Able, Use

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• Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

  Christopher Dodd

  Senior, Independent, Years

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• Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.

  Bill Gross

  Order, Safety, Trying

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• It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

  Lawrence Summers

  Morning, Usa, New Day

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• Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says, 'We don't have enough money for this space probe.' No, it's not that you don't have enough money. It's that the distribution of money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Dream, Future

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• Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Humanity

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin

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• We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

  John W. Snow

  Priorities, Economic, Ability

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Photography, Jobs, Artist

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

  David Ogilvy

  Enemy, Merit, Disability

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• You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

  Toni Morrison

  Moon, Sky, Choices

  "A Writer Not Fusty, if Addicted to Mystery". www.nytimes.com. October 05, 2005.

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• I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Class, Lasts

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Successful, Giving, President

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• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

  H. G. Wells

  Fog, Gathering, Valleys

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.66, H. G. Wells

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• The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future potential is enormous but the country's destiny is in our hands. The time has come to move from small increments to bold, large initiatives. The time has come to stretch the envelope and set goals which were earlier not seen to be possible. The time has come for performance to be measured and for allocated funds of the government to reach the people for whom they were intended.

  Ratan Tata

  Inspirational, Country, Moving

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• I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

  John Salazar

  Country, Agriculture, Energy

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• The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq.

  Joe Biden

  Change, Jobs, Commitment

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• To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, World, Politics

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Libertarian

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.299

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• In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.

  Meg Whitman

  Relief, Would Be, Cost

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