Economy Quotes

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

The economy is so bad that bedbugs are now infesting sleeping bags and tents, because they can't afford to stay in hotels anymore.

Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.

When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.

Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench.

In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

We need a game plan to deploy it very quickly to both move the economy forward and create the new businesses and jobs, and address climate change. It's a pretty big task. Pretty challenging.

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

Economy is essential to all good art.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

We're calling for that bailout for young people in order to jumpstart the economy of our future.

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.

This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

Despite Russia's move to raise interest rates this week, the value of the ruble has continued to crash. Russia's economy is so bad, Edward Snowden had to put government secrets on Craigslist.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

We want a strong, growing economy

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.

If we don't embrace a low carbon economy this decade, it won't just harm the planet, but also the U.S. economy.

It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.