Economy Quotes - Page 2

• Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Capitalist Economy, Liberty, Libertarian

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• The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

  Dennis Weaver

  Simple, Environment, Premises

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• Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

  David R. Brower

  Doors, People, Risk

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• If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

  Mark Dayton

  Government, Social, Ifs

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• Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Fifty, Today, Company

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• We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

  John W. Snow

  Growth, Important, Rate

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

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• It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Wisdom, Country, People

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• Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.

  Hannah More

  Practice, Understanding, Sound

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• Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

  Anthony Hope

  Want Something, Should, Cases

  'The Dolly Dialogues' (1894) no. 12

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• In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

  Ron Kind

  War, Cost, Subsidies

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• Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says, 'We don't have enough money for this space probe.' No, it's not that you don't have enough money. It's that the distribution of money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Dream, Future

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• Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

  Ayn Rand

  Future, Past, Humanity

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin

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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, Ability

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

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• The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.

  John F. Kennedy

  New Ventures, Decision, Risk

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  Walter Lippmann

  Freedom, Men, Effort

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  Ziggy Marley

  Money, People, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

  Toni Morrison

  Moon, Sky, Choices

  "A Writer Not Fusty, if Addicted to Mystery". www.nytimes.com. October 05, 2005.

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• I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Class, Lasts

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

  David Ogilvy

  Enemy, Merit, Disability

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• Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Successful, Giving, President

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Photography, Jobs, Artist

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2010.

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• To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Taken, World, Politics

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

  John Salazar

  Country, Agriculture, Energy

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• Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Libertarian

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.299

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• The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq.

  Joe Biden

  Change, Jobs, Commitment

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