Economy Quotes - Page 9

• The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

  Hamid Karzai

  Able, West, Economic

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• The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, "Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone."

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Mean, Thinking, Law

  Lilly Ledbetter's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Theory, Experiments

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.11, eKitap Projesi

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• The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

  Thomas Malthus

  Class, Mankind, Higher

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• We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

  Gale Norton

  Energy, India, China

  "Interior Secretary Gale Norton". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2005.

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• Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

  Frances O'Grady

  Government, Stripes, Growth

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• Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

  John L. Lewis

  Goal, Democracy, Rational

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous

  Juan Somavia

  Children, Kids, Men

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• Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.

  Rick Larsen

  Responsibility, America, Community

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• Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.

  Damian Marley

  Technology, Jamaica, Impact

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

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• You don't grow the economy by growing government.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Government, Growing, Grows

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• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  Ed Markey

  School, Technology, Engineering

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• The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

  Peter Welch

  Gun, Hair, Pay

  "Arena Profile: Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Erika Lovley, www.politico.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.

  Peter Welch

  Party, Play, People

  "Playing chicken with U.S. economy". www.politico.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.

  Roy H. Williams

  Writing, Easy, Ads

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• The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.

  Mark Zandi

  Strong, Government, Play

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• I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

  Douglass North

  School, Way, Graduates

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.

  James Morcan

  Drug, Black, Criminals

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• In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Thinking, Introducing New, Play

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• To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

  George Soros

  Government, People, Mind

  Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 05, 2000.

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• It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

  Bob Dole

  Government, People, Ends

  Robert Dole's Speech To The Republican National Convention in San Diego, California, edition.cnn.com. August 15, 1996.

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• There is plenty of room to make a profit in a zero-carbon economy; but the profit motive is not going to be the midwife for that great transformation.

  Naomi Klein

  Zero, Rooms, Transformation

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Real, Growth, Economic

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