Economy Quotes

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred.

But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.

Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

I will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the economic difficulties we're having, how to do something about unemployment, how to make sure that we free up our businesses and we don't over-regulate ourselves.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

We've got to be able to have a conversation and recognize we're all Americans; we all want the best for this country. We may have some disagreements in terms of how to get there, but all of us want to make sure that our economy is strong, that jobs are growing. All of us want to make sure that people aren't bankrupt when they get sick. All of us want to make sure that young people can afford an education.

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

All work undertaken should be useful - not just for a day, or a year, but useful in the sense that it affords permanent improvement in living conditions or that it creates future new wealth for the Nation.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.

Thrift is of great revenue.

I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery because it's in all of our interests that Greece succeeds.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!

What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.

I've been very good for gun manufacturers.

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side.

The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.

I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.

The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.