American Economy Quotes - Page 2

• There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.

  Russell B. Long

  Political, Choices, Politics

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• I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

  Michelle Rhee

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

  Tim Kaine

  Innovation, Energy, World

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• College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

  Gordon Gee

  College, Ideas, Impact

  "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Names, Safety

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• I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Effort, Unemployment, Care

  "Will Obama’s Exploitation of Newtown Families Force GOP to Cave on Gun Control?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 12, 2013.

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• What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

  James P. Hoffa

  Country, Unions, Trends

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• Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

  Amy Waldman

  Home, Asking Why, Worry

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.31, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  Nate Silver

  People, Acting, Degrees

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• Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

  Joyce Appleby

  Details, Dozen, Coherence

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• Anything that drags down the American economy drags the Canadian economy down with it.

  John Ibbitson

  Economy, Drag

  "International observers express fear, optimism on shutdown" by Alex Hopkins, www.washingtontimes.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

  Barack Obama

  America, Two, Choices

  Barack Obama's News Conference on the debt ceiling, fiscal battles and gun control, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 14, 2013.

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• When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

  Elliott Abrams

  Talking, White, House

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• The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

  Jay Carney

  Thinking, Order, People

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• When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Average, Years, Office

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• Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

  Ted Cruz

  Military, Unions, Communism

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Financial experts are saying we are entering a new chapter in the American economy. I believe it's Chapter 11.

  Jay Leno

  Believe, Experts, Entering

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• To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

  Jay Leno

  Your Side, Ideas, Giving

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• You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, May, Months

  Marco Rubio's keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was like the 1950s. The American economy was pumping at top speed. The kinds of people who would move into these communities and organize their lives around a utopian dream now had dreams about the West.

  Christine Jennings

  Dream, War, Moving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the wealthiest 5% of the population. So they got all the growth. 95% of the population didn't grow. If you can get a flat tax or other lower tax, as Trump is suggesting, then this richest 5% will be able to keep even more money. That means that the 95% will be even poorer than they were before, relative to the very top.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Growth, Population

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

  Newt Gingrich

  Authority And Power, Want, Strategy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Eight, Years, Europe

  Source: time.com

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• There is probably a high percentage of Native Americans as well as non-Indians who feel that participating in this greater American economy that you mentioned is and has become a recipe for disaster in the long term, because the response to social and environmental problems has been responded to with a drug mentality, which is to say, anything for the quick fix. And it has trained the public to always believe they are one purchase away from happiness.

  Leonard Peltier

  Believe, Native American, Long

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Patient, Economy

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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