The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind… — Andrew Keen Copy Share Image
Small business in America is what fuels the American economy. We need more small business to assist us in creating a great… — Debbi Fields Copy Share Image
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I have two measures every time I look at a bill. Is this in the best interests of the hardworking taxpayers in… — David Joyce Copy Share Image
China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
To shift America (and the world) to a cleaner energy economy, millions of people will have to go to work in new… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Today's national income statistics make it appear that Goldman Sachs is productive. As if Donald Trump plays a productive role. The aim… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If the Chinese bubble bursts one day, which inevitably will happen - maybe not tomorrow, maybe in three months, maybe in three… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million… — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
If America chooses, we can develop our own energy resources and not be pressured into wars in the Middle East. Cheap energy… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions to Japan, either, but today Japan boasts a fully-fledged democracy in which governments… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump was successful in capturing "drain the swamp, change Washington, a big screw-you to the status quo" - which… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people.… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“The view of Central America as a region to be kept "safe" for American corporations was naturally not shared by all the… — Stephen Schlesinger Copy Share Image
