Quotes About Economy

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.

We are in favor of greater free markets.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.

I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.

Greece's debt is going to be a function of a lot of factors down the road.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there's a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.

Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

Greece has to stay in the euro.

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

We can't green the economy without the power of the free-market system.

What the Internet was for the 1990s, green jobs are for the 2000s.

We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.

Economic gross is making us fat.