Gdp Quotes - Page 2

• The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

  Richard P. Bland

  Country, Europe, Aristocracy

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• I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Ontario, Made, Professors

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• My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

  Preston Manning

  Political, Canada, Tradition

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• In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

  Omar Bongo

  Political, Democracy, World

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• ...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

  Robert Kennedy

  Marriage, Country, Children

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Country, Song, Strong

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• The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Western Culture, Should, China

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

  William Easterly

  Rights, Numbers, Growth

  William Easterly (2014). “A The Tyranny of Experts: How the Fight Against Global Poverty Suppressed Individual Rights”, p.137, Perseus Books Group

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• Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

  Dave Barry

  Oregon, Literature, Miles

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• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Funny, Sarcastic, Spiritual

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• Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

  Bill Gross

  Growth, Debt, Tendencies

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• Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

  Mitt Romney

  Taken, Government, President

  "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 2, 2011.

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• In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Depression, Years, Different

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• Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

  Christina Romer

  Years, Three, Next

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• But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

  John W. Snow

  Strong, Numbers, Needs

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• I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.

  Mark Kirk

  Running, Dream, Past

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Feelings, Western

  'Decoding the West' in 'Sunday Best' (1976)

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• What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.

  Gerald Celente

  Unemployment, Austerity, Poverty

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• While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Perfect, Growth, Energy

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• What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Children, Mean

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• World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

  Narendra Modi

  Bhutan, World, Politics

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2014

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• President Obama should stop campaigning and start working on creating jobs, start working on getting our GDP up, start working on strengthening our borders.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Creating, President

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• There's no growth. If China has a GDP of 7 percent, it's like a national catastrophe. We're down at 1 percent. And that's, like, no growth. And we're going lower, in my opinion. And a lot of it has to do with the fact that our taxes are so high, just about the highest in the world. And I'm bringing them down to one of the lower in the world.

  Donald Trump

  America, Growth, Facts

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• America is dying at 1 percent GDP.

  Donald Trump

  America, Dying, Percent

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• Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Defense, Requirements

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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