Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources… — Ellen Meiksins Wood Copy Share Image
The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing,… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
Common, ordinary, everyday Democrats, not leftists, there may be - if the agenda gets implemented and this country starts humming on the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There was an analyst who came out the other day who's had a long track record of projecting presidential campaigns based on… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“What about the contacts your mum had?” his dad asked. “I rang and spoke to four very polite computers who gave me… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were… — Bernard Ebbers Copy Share Image
We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people..… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors.… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
To build a truly diverse economy with a pipeline of skilled labor, technical college in Georgia should be free, and students should… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
In a globalized economy, it's very difficult for the U.K. to go it alone. Don't listen to politicians. Politicians say if the… — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Ontario is fortunate to have the expertise, insight and leadership of The Honourable David C. Onley. I look forward to working with… — Brad Duguid Copy Share Image
Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers… — Richard Karn Copy Share Image
I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Neither Obama nor Romney will be able to 'heal' our 'pockets' during the next four years. The only thing I'm sure about… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to… — Charles Bracelen Flood Copy Share Image
“There's plenty of challenging, gratifying, interesting, productive workaround for people to do, and there are plenty of people who want to do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
[Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.'… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image