Quotes About Economy

If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.

Like all of my colleagues, I believe financial reform is necessary now.

A lack of reform - particularly in international tax - has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

But I can tell you another engine for growth and job creation would be comprehensive immigration reform.

We need to enact comprehensive immigration reform, to bring people out of the shadows and empower them to more fully and freely participate in their communities and the economy. And we need to invest in our nation's deteriorating infrastructure - investments that would create jobs and benefit all sectors of the economy.

As a first generation American myself, I know that comprehensive immigration reform is good for our country. I know it will reduce our deficit, grow our economy, reaffirm our values, advance our ideals, and honor our history as a nation of immigrants.

Only when we have economic growth can we push through fiscal reform.

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

If very fundamental reforms take place, especially when it comes to factors of production like land, labour, then a higher growth rate is possible.

In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities.

Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.

There are high hopes of France and what they're trying to achieve there by liberalising the labour market and other reforms. You lose some, you gain some.

I don't think any government is going to go back on the reforms process. There is no government that won't attempt to get people to come and manufacture in India.

We do not need mindless spending bills with no reforms attached.

Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

To say to a country that it shouldn't export its gas is like saying, 'Look, the only way we can defeat hunger is to put a padlock on the refrigerator.'

The problems that ail the U.S. economy and American society are one and the same: Both consume too much and refuse to make badly needed changes. This is true above all in the realm of energy.