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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less… — Brad Wenstrup Copy Share Image
The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power,… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
In this country, people are concerned about their economic future. They're very concerned about it. And they wonder whether somebody is getting… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity… — John Green Copy Share Image
An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it,… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better… — John Collison Copy Share Image
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many… — David Kim Copy Share Image
You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because,… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
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