People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportunities of the Asian Century. A… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“For the first time, a whole generation had the economic & educational opportunity to turn their backs on the dead end factory… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Donald Trump wants to make it clear to the American people that, while Hillary Clinton is committed to open borders, and amnesty,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy… — Franklin Raines Copy Share Image
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“Our problem was not, and is not, a lack of growth. Our problem is 60 years of unproductive growth -- growth that… — Charles Marohn Copy Share Image
“Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling… — Amah Lambert Copy Share Image
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
This goes back to the main challenge we are facing, because Europe at the moment is not competitive. We have many imbalances… — Mark Rutte Copy Share Image
There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, has managed to retain high approval ratings despite his slumping economy by seizing Crimea from Ukraine and participating… — Kelly Evans Copy Share Image
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy… — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
We need to make sure and that we can continue to move forward in creating jobs and getting the economy turned around.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100%… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image