Interest Quotes

5175 Interest quotes by 3335 unique authors

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Unknown Author
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition… — John Maynard Keynes
So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create… — Sonia Sotomayor
Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare… — George W. Bush
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen… — John Ralston Saul
The Fed has one power that is unique to it alone: it enables the creation of money out of thin air. Sometimes it makes vast… — Ron Paul
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all… — Ludwig von Mises
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative… — Paul Krugman
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds… — Paul Krugman
Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests… — Ralph Raico
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted. — Ralph Raico
This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them… — Murray Rothbard
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have… — Theda Skocpol
The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand,… — R. H. Tawney
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly… — Ian Macfarlane
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming. — John McCain
The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates were quite low… — Sam Zell
Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And if… — Sam Zell
Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the… — John W. Snow
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the… — Prince Philip
Policy decisions on climate change are being deliberated every day by those without full knowledge of the science, and often with intentional misinformation spawned by… — James Hansen
In some cases, in order to protect global issues some sacrifice for national interest is worth it in the long run. Global warming, these things,… — Dalai Lama

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