George W. Bush Quotes About Growth

• I understand small business growth. I was one.

  George W. Bush

  Business, Humor, Insperational

• The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

  George W. Bush

  Growth, Financial, Excuse

  George W. Bush (2010). “Decision Points”, p.471, Random House

• What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

  George W. Bush

  Pie, Growth, Republican

  Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Columbia, South Carolina, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. February 15, 2000.

• How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.

  George W. Bush

  Smart, Yield, Growth

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

• I know we need more nuclear power in order - nuclear power, after all, is not dependent on fossil fuels and emits no greenhouse gases. I believe we're going to be able to have coal-fired plants that have zero emissions. We need to work on carbon sequestration technologies. I mean, there's a lot we can do together and achieve the objective, which a lot of people want, which is the reduction of greenhouse gases, and at the same time, have viable economic growth.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Mean, Technology

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Uganda's budget is 40 percent aid-dependent. Ghana's budget is 50 percent aid-dependent. Even if you cancel the debt, you don't eliminate that aid dependency. This is what I mean by getting to the fundamental root causes of the problem. Government, the state sectors in many African countries need to be slashed so that, you know, you put a greater deal of reliance on the private sector. The private sector is the engine of growth. Africa's economy needs to grow but they're not growing.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Mean, Growth

• The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to manufacture that which you're spending it on. You see, more money in the private sector circulating makes it more likely that our economy will grow. And, incredibly enough, some want to take away part of those tax cuts. They've been reading the wrong textbook. You don't raise somebody's taxes in the middle of a recession. You trust people with their own money. And, by the way, that money isn't the government's money; it's the people's money.

  George W. Bush

  Reading, Cutting, Government

• So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

  George W. Bush

  Our World, Goal, Support

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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