Economic Quotes

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

— George H. W. Bush

This aged economic system is out of date!

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

“Ignorance leads to economic failures.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We want a strong, growing economy

— John Baird

There cannot be prosperity without security.

— Francois Hollande

I'm for economic independence.

— Charles Evers

We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

— Jim Yong Kim

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

— Ibrahim Babangida

In a certain geographic region at a certain economic level, being gay is not an issue.

— Scott Bessent

There's such a thing as spiritual capital that has economic function and potential.

— Ted Malloch

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

— Michel Chossudovsky

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

— Nestor Kirchner

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

— Andy Hargreaves

Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

— Ban Ki-moon

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

— Noam Chomsky

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our…

— Carol Moseley Braun

A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.

— Patrick M. Byrne

We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and…

— Barack Obama

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it…

— Herman Cain

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has…

— Jon Meacham

If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment…

— Simon Mainwaring

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

— Mitt Romney

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of…

— Tim Bishop

The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

Americans think they're the leader of the world and yet can say that they're putting their economic interests ahead of the lives…

— Peter Singer

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy…

— Thomas Sowell

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock…

— Cory Booker

I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a…

— Angela Davis

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises the lives…

— Simon Mainwaring

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are…

— John Sununu

It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has…

— Jerry Mander

Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10…

— Adnan

I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The…

— Michael Eric Dyson

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest…

— Murray Rothbard

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they…

— Tony Benn

Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by…

— Richard Florida

A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

China has really succeeded because of its stability. So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in…

— Bernard Arnault

Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data…

— T. Colin Campbell