"There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment...." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher

“The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.”

“There are too few rich and too few profits.”

“It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”

“If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause a scramble for men and resources, then I would oppose tax reductions as irresponsible and inflationary; and I would not hesitate to recommend a tax increase if that were necessary.”

“Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.”

“No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.”

“The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.”

“There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.”

“Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.”