History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If we are to maintain our position as a global economic leader, we've got to end the govern-by-crisis mentality that sets us… — Scott Peters Copy Share Image
For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
President Obama is currently on a week-long trip to Africa, where he will promote freedom, democracy, and economic opportunity. I guess he… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
We are seeing a working-class, a middle class, which over the last three decades has seen their wages and income stagnate, while… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work. — W. Allen Wallis Copy Share Image
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave… — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change. — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud,… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,—… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion,… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I, like everybody else, have lost most of my pension plan in this economic crash. So I have to. I'm going to… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image