Obviously, the domestic need is to shape an economic…

Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently investing in the development of a knowledge-based economy is essential to sustaining healthy economic…

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we…

— Alan Hassenfeld

Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our…

— Robert Reich

Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of…

— Charles Boustany

“Although much has been written about the decline of American competitiveness, in many ways this new global market plays to our strengths. The constant…

— Walter B. Wriston

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these…

— Vito Fossella

“But of course many individual economic reforms require the state to give up some power. Streamlining the SOEs means a big reduction in the…

— Arthur R. Kroeber

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new…

— Robert Hormats

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the…

— John W. Snow

I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the…

— Barack Obama

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the…

— Peter Blair Henry

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And…

— Manmohan Singh

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes…

— Mark Zandi

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool…

— Joel Bakan