Economics Quote by Michael Spence

For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going…

— Al Gore

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the…

— Peter Blair Henry

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most…

— Jim DeMint

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty…

— E. F. Schumacher

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

— Ian Bremmer

“Large-scale reforms usually require either a crisis, which makes them unavoidable, or a framework that builds popular support along with an effective advocate to…

— Eswar S Prasad

It is easy and quick to fritter away gains regarding macroeconomic stability.

— Urjit Patel

Making strong infrastructural reforms, particularly in the area of social security, that's not an appealing prospect for any country or for any political structure.…

— Roberto Azevedo

For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year,…

— Ian Macfarlane

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination…

— Andrew Jackson

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might…

— Shashi Tharoor

I believe that overall if you want a growing economy what you have got to have is sufficient flexibility to allow that to happen.

— Grant Shapps