Economic Policy Quotes - Page 3

• If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

  Paul Keating

  Government, Australia, Done

  Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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• Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Commitment, Priorities, Suffering

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• The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Educational, Commitment, Economic Inequality

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• The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

  Mitch Daniels

  Jobs, Ambition, Optimism

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  Jack Kemp

  Sound, Republican, Economic

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• If you want to know what the biggest thing in your way to an improved standard of living, higher pay, a more rewarding career is: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and their economic policies. They are the roadblock.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Careers, Want

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• Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

  Evo Morales

  Unemployment, Misery, Economic

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• And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

  Marco Rubio

  America, People, Belief

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  Camille Paglia

  Administration, Economic, Stimulus

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• The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sweat, Views, Bread

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• The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Iraq, Issues, Leader

  "Pelosi questions Bush's competence". Interview, edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2004.

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• A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, President, Climate

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• Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Society, Alive, Spirit

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests.

  Russell Kirk

  Real, Special, Principles

  Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”

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• I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.

  Frances O'Grady

  Downing Street, Alternatives, Faces

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• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Numbers, Growth

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• Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Cutting, America, Illustration

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• I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

  Lucas Papademos

  Europe, Politician, Economic

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• Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Horse, Oats, Sides

  "Recession Economics". New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1, February 04, 1982.

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• It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet.

  Bill Hicks

  Children, Satan, Economic

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• By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist among the irrefutably enduring writers of our time than Ayn Rand: philosopher queen of the best-seller lists in the forties and fifties, cult phenomenon and nationally declared threat to public morality in the sixties, guru to the Libertarians and to White House economic policy in the seventies, and a continuing exemplar or Wilde's tragic observation that more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  Claudia Roth

  Queens, White, House

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• It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Unions, Study, Economic

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• People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, People, Principles

  "MITT SCORCHES NEWT WITH HEAVY BUY FOR ’97 BROKAW CLIP –Obama to Auto Show -- POTUS gives Google+ interview Mon. – Remembering Mayor White -- Robbi Dickens has #4 – Maria Comella bday". www.politico.com. February 28, 2012.

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• I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Economic, Disaster

  Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Insecure, Night, Blue

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Feb 17, 2016

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