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Economy Quotes


"For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights."


"The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country."


"With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that."



"Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages."


"The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price."


"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."


"Everybody you talk to about insurance says the insurance market has become a lot more vibrant as a result of lifting, allowing the foreign direct investment."


"Real economic stimulus comes from real investment."


"This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy."


"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."


"If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check."


"We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa."


"A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable."


"If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."


"First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated."


"One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world."


"Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses."


"The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer."


"By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere."


"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."


"High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel."


"Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets."


"I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years."


"Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda."


"It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy."


"The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind."


"The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations."


"Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly."


"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."


"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."


"I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit."


"While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant."


"Everybody is talking today about the economy."


"Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating."


"A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems."


"In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low."


"I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy."


"The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year."


"In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die."


"I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others."


"It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy."


"My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy."
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