Barack Obama Quotes About Economic Growth

• The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Discovery, Research And Development

  Barack Obama's speech on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Suffering, Growth

• This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It’s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

• I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Recovery, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.

  Barack Obama

  Growth, Done, Unions

  "Obama: 'Special relationship is enduring'". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 25, 2016.

• When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all an illusion, that it wasn't growth based on real products and services, but just a bunch of paper shuffling and a house of cards, then what's gonna emerge, at some point, is a sense of resentment, a sense that the system's rigged, and it's not working for ordinary people. And it's not fulfilling the basic American dream.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Real, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Growth, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Our Generation, Class, America

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

• We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and financial stability.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Growth, Financial

  "President Barack Obama Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg and Entrepreneurs at GES". al.usembassy.gov. June 25, 2016.

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