Why do people vote the way to do? For swing voters, the answer is usually the state of the economy. — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy. — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Under stable and incremental conditions, a free-market economy spurs entrepreneurship, ensures efficiency, and generates wealth. Those conditions no longer apply. — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
One of our top priorities is ensuring that Virginia's economy serves and benefits Virginia's workers, businesses, and families alike. — Glenn Youngkin Copy Share Image
You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
The first thing we better get going is strengthening our economy, because if we don't have a strong economy, we can't pay… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it’s because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
What type of new economical system can organize this system? There is another sector in our life, that we rely on every… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of… — Patrice Motsepe Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
If you want to have a nonmiraculous day, I suggest that newspaper and caffeine form the crux of your morning regimen. Listen… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“In contrast to what many people in Britain and the United States believe, the true figures on growth (as best one can… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles. — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy,… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
The American people know that our economy is struggling right now, partly because of the debt that is impacting American families, hardworking… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector… — Dan Kildee Copy Share Image
So you could have a very institutionally well-developed economy that's still very low in terms of its technological success. That would be… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In terms of the overall economy, we've got challenges and the big focus has got to be on recovery, on repair, and… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
So, is there a "new economy?" The answer is: It depends. It depends on how you define new economy, and it depends… — Laurence Meyer Copy Share Image
An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each… — Stjepan Mesic Copy Share Image
You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
