People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
We live in terribly complex times. We are confronted by very serious problems. Some of us are faced with sickness, with economic… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While… — Mazie Hirono Copy Share Image
We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The economic freedom which is the prerequisite of any other freedom cannot be the freedom from economic care which the socialist promise… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Some economists became obsessed with market efficiency and others with market failure. Generally held to be members of opposite schools-freshwater and saltwater,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
The biggest roadblock to middle-class economic advancement is that governments confiscate more than a third of all family income. Each year the… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
“The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
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