Quotes on Economy

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

Author: Giovanni Agnelli

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

Author: Wayne Allard

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

Author: Charles Babbage

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.

Author: John Baldacci

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

Author: Robert Ballard

There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

Author: Haley Barbour

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

Author: John Barlow

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

Author: Fred Barnes

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

Author: Dan Bartlett

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.

Author: Bo Bennett

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

Author: Peter Berger

How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?

Author: Howard Berman

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

Author: Tim Bishop

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

Author: Kit Bond

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.

Author: Leonard Boswell

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

Author: Bill Bryson

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Author: Edmund Burke

It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy.

Author: Richard Burr

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.

Author: Harry Byrd

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

Author: James Byrnes

I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

Author: James Callaghan

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

Author: David Cameron

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

Author: Kim Campbell

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

Author: Donald Carcieri

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

Author: Barbara Castle

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

Author: Ron Chernow

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

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.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

Author: Phil Condit

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Author: Jerry Costello

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Author: Christopher Dodd

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

Author: Esther Dyson

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

Author: Bulent Ecevit

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

Author: Anthony Eden

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

Author: Jo Emerson

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

Author: John Engler

I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.

Author: Donald Evans

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

Author: Martin Feldstein

But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.

Author: Martin Feldstein

Everybody is talking today about the economy.

Author: Joschka Fischer

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

Author: Steve Forbes

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

Author: Virginia Foxx

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

Author: Alberto Fujimori

In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies.

Author: Toshihiko Fukui

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Author: Sonia Gandhi

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

Author: Susan George

However, it may occur that we will find ourselves using a variety of fuel sources to give us the energy we need support our lifestyles and boost our economy.

Author: Virgil Goode

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

Author: Graham Greene

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Author: Alan Greenspan

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Author: William Greider

Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.

Author: Kenny Guinn

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.

Author: Daniel Hannan

Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.

Author: Dennis Hastert

The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.

Author: J. Hayworth

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Author: Henry Hazlitt

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

Author: Alexis Herman

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

Author: Jim Jeffords

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

Author: Bobby Jindal

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

Author: Kim Jung

Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

Author: Ric Keller

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

Author: Jack Kingston

Taiwan is a major economy.

Author: William Kirby

There is no pure free-market economy.

Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

Author: Vaclav Klaus

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Author: Vaclav Klaus

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Author: David Korten

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

Author: David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

Author: David Korten

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

Author: David Korten

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

Author: David Korten

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Author: Ted Kulongoski

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.

Author: Stephen Lynch

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

Author: Peter Mandelson

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

Author: Kenny Marchant

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

Author: Robert Menendez

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

Author: Eddie Murphy

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

Author: Richard Neal

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it.

Author: Jim Nussle

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

Author: Solomon Ortiz

A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.

Author: Bill Owens

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

Author: Ross Perot

We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.

Author: Franklin Raines

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

Author: Franklin Raines

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Author: Rodrigo Rato

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.

Author: Ronald Reagan

I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy.

Author: Harry Reid

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.

Author: Jodi Rell

The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

Author: Jay Rockefeller

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

Author: Christina Romer

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

Author: Mitt Romney

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

Author: Ibrahim Rugova

The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Author: John Saul

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

Author: Hjalmar Schacht

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

Author: Jan Schakowsky

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Author: Charles Schumer

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

Author: Nassau Senior

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Author: William Shenstone

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

Author: Bill Shuster

The global economy is in pretty good shape.

Author: John Snow

But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

Author: John Snow

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

Author: George Soros

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

Author: Baldwin Spencer

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.

Author: Cliff Stearns

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Author: Brooks Stevens

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

Author: Brooks Stevens

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

Author: John Sweeney

In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

Author: John Sweeney

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

Author: Bob Taft

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

Author: Oliver Tambo

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Author: Ellen Tauscher

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Author: William Thompson

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Author: Alvin Toffler

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Author: Dennis Weaver

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

Author: Dennis Weaver

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

Author: Jerry Weller

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

Author: Minoru Yamasaki

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

Author: Daniel Yergin

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.

Author: Mark Zandi

Success is often just a handful of seeds cast during a season ripe for growth—also known as a really productive coffee break.

Author: Sarah Jenkins