American Economy Quotes

• Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that has created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and rewarded the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon of science, and technology, and discovery. But the American economy has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle - that America prospers when all Americans can prosper. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Technology, Invisible Hand

  "The Day the Momentum Changed: And What Obama Needs to Do in the Debates to Keep It" by Drew Westen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2008.

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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, Economy

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

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• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

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• No, I’ve always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it’s demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.

  Dick Cheney

  Blow, Thinking, Years

  "My Interview with Dick Cheney". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

  Martin Amis

  America, World, Matter

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Children, School

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• The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mean, Reality, Government

  "Democrat Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Steven Pearlstein, www.inc.com. August 1, 1987.

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• The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Mean, Years

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• The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way.

  David Brooks

  Government, Earning It, Way

  "Week In Politics: Trump Begins 'Thank You' Tour In Indiana". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, apr.org. December 2, 2016.

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• We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Believe, Progressive, Economy

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• There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

  Robert J. Gordon

  Powerful, Educational, Cutting

  "The Death of Innovation, the End of Growth". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.

  Mike Lee

  America, Safety, Goal

  "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

  Frans de Waal

  Economy Today, Interesting, Chinese

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technology, Envy, Immigration

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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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• I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Keys, Race, Dollars

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

  Eva Longoria

  Jobs, Issues, Immigration

  "Eva Longoria: There'll be 'no empty chairs' in my DNC speech" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. November 02, 2015.

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• So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

  Rodrigo Rato

  Needs, World, Economy

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• One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

  Jon Meacham

  Years, Long, Track

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• The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.

  Lou Dobbs

  Country, Men, Looks

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• Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Air, Average

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• The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay.

  Ed Rollins

  Country, Groups, Reform

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Allies, Essentials

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

  Paul Ormerod

  Social Values, Cities, United States

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Strong, Get Better, Flow

  "Citadel Boss Won't Be Hedging On Day Job". Chicago Tribune, March 2006.

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