Gdp Quotes - Page 3

• It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

  David Cameron

  More To Life, Well Being, Wells

  "There's more to life than money, says Cameron" by Oliver King, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006.

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• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

  Ulrich Beck

  Country, Today, Western

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• Strictly from the perspective of human well-being, the richest-but-warmest world characterized by the A1FI scenario would probably be superior to the poorer-but-cooler worlds at least through 2085, particularly if one considers the numerous ways GDP per capita advances human well-being.

  Indur M. Goklany

  Perspective, World, Way

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• You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition of rules and regulations - the rules of the game, so to speak - and to provide certain shared goods and services, public services. Several people have tried to estimate this and they come out with figures like government spending at 15% of GDP. In the modern world it has gone to 40% or above. So we are way beyond the optimal, and that is easier to say than what the optimum is.

  James M. Buchanan

  Rights, Government, Order

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Land, Ownership, Privatization

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• Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather make the public good argument, which is not just about innovation or nurturing new companies that will add to the nation's GDP, it's actually about creating a democratic public sphere.

  Astra Taylor

  Hurt, Creating, Innovation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Kyoto, Russia

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• Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.

  Terry Southern

  Country, World, Arms

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• I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

  Barry Corbin

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

  John W. Snow

  Success, Congratulations, Mean

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

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• We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial institutions in America today have assets of roughly $10 trillion; equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Numbers, America, Judging

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia.

  Christy Clark

  Government, Talking, Carbon Emissions

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating.

  Rick Santorum

  Numbers, Looks, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I have made revenue collection a frontline institution because it is the one which can emancipate us from begging. If we can get about 22% of GDP we should not need to disturb anybody asking for aid; instead of coming here to bother you, give me this, give me this, I shall come here to greet you, to trade with you.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Giving, Needs, Asking

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• Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

  Edward James Olmos

  Color, People, Hemisphere

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• World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Military, Goal, Would Be

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• The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

  Peter Agre

  Squares, Half, Territory

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• Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

  Aldrich Ames

  Europe, Invasion, Arguing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Eye, Media, Leader

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

  Uwe Reinhardt

  Issues, Soul, Care

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• Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Europe, Cities

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• While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ghana

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• Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

  Jim Stanford

  Children, Caring, Impact

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.

  Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

  Thinking, Qatar, Giving

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