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"Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing."
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"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

"Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff."

"Major policy reform in the petroleum sector. Under the new Hydrocarbon Exploration Licensing Policy, there will be pricing and marketing freedom and a transparent revenue-sharing methodology. This will eliminate many layers of bureaucratic controls."

"Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure."

"But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics."

"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."
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"If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job."

"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."

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

"The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years."

"What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like."

"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."

"There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency."

"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."

"We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know."
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