Mayors, I think, tend to be more no-nonsense, and you look for economic opportunities for your communities. — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake. — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development — Tony Juniper Copy Share Image
There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that… — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you want peace, you've got to deal with people; you don't just deal with objects. And whether they take it as… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they… — Harry Magdoff Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of… — Marilyn Waring Copy Share Image
You know, even in the economic downturn in Alberta, there are restaurants in Calgary, and even in Canmore up the mountain, that… — Naheed Nenshi Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right… — Richard Bangs Copy Share Image
Greed plays a role in causing unnecessary surgery, although I don't think the economic motive alone is enough to explain it. There's… — Robert S. Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education"… Until now, the results of educational… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm'… — Richard W. Fisher Copy Share Image
The children of baby boomers should take very seriously the consequences for them of the inadequate funding for them of the baby… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins. — Michael Heseltine Copy Share Image