"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."

Economy, Unemployment

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"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."

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"Since we took office, inflation, the fiscal deficit and the balance of payments current account deficit have all fallen. GDP growth, foreign exchange reserves, stock market valuations, and investor confidence have all increased. This success is the result of a series of well thought out policies."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

Economy, Growth, FiscalPolicy, Finance

"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Economy, Wealth, Famine, Irony, Abundance

"Market economy favors the have against the have not."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"They only let us live in millions for the sake of the economy. I don't know what will happen by the time they figure out how to run the economy without the people."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Economy, People, Control, Life

"But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses."

Jon Huntsman, Jr., American Politician

Economy, Entrepreneurs, Will

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Economy, Economics

"My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term."

Robert Menendez, American Politician

Economy, First

"Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job."

J. D. Hayworth, American Politician

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"Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on."

Robert Grosseteste, English Statesman

Economy, Sheep, Support

"The ways by which you may get your money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earn money 'merely' is to be truly idle or worse. If the labourer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.. You must get your living by loving."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Economy, Money, Values, Labour, Work

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"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged."

Fact, Living, Wilderness

"Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process."

Politics,

"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."

Life, Act, Rivers

"There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do."

Politics, Tension

"No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience."

Experience,

"I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing."

Vision, Land

"Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience."

Experience, Years

"I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments."

People, Country, Creation, Monuments

"We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue."

Policy, Country, Destruction

"I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that."

Age, Financial, Years