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Quotes About Economy

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.
~ Scott Walker
People create jobs, not the government.
~ Scott Walker
We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.
~ Scott Walker
I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services ' it's actually a 'false choice.'
~ Scott Walker
Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.
~ Gary Shteyngart
At the same time, African aims to intensify cooperation with China in the fields of trade, investment and agriculture.
~ Olusegun Obasanjo
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.
~ Alexander Hamilton
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
~ Barack Obama
Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.
~ Barack Obama
There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.
~ Barack Obama
It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.
~ Barack Obama
We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.
~ Barack Obama
Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
~ Bob Beauprez
In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.
~ Charles Koch
Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.
~ Charles Spurgeon
...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.
~ David Lereah
Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.
~ David Rolf
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
~ David S. Broder
If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.
~ Dr. Seuss
The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.
~ Drew Carey
Markets, and the way they operate can't be frozen in time and place. A dynamic economy that is growing and increasing material well-being for a large number of people have to change over time.
~ Douglas Massey
Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!
~ Laurence Kotlikoff
We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff