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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."
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Personal Development

"My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created."
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"Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendship; justice, justice; military merit, military success...Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points. Hotspur lives for the moment, praises himself for it, and despises Furlong, that he does not. Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong is a good provider. The odd circumstance is that Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands."
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"Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents. His bones ache with the days' work that earned it. He knows how much land it represents - how much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight. In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen or a lucky rise in exchange, it comes to be looked on as light."
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"In capitalist nation, all is decided by money."
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"Economic growth cannot only be restricted to a few cities and a few citizens. Development has to be all-round and all-inclusive."
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"Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class."
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"A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud."
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"Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it."
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"Employment is the biggest form of slavery."
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"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."
Change

"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?"
Education

"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
Work

"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
Beginning

"If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster."
Society

"It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics."
Politics

"There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production."
People

"I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later."
Food

"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
Change

"Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land."
Earth
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