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Quotes About Economy

China has to understand America wants to trade with them. We want a world that's stable. We like free enterprise, but you got to play by the rules.
~ Mitt Romney
Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.
~ Newt Gingrich
Coolidge really hated government being in the power business. He thought it was wrong. He saw the potential for growth in the power business. He didn't want the federal government in it.
~ Amity Shlaes
I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.
~ Arundhati Roy
Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.
~ Barack Obama
People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Information wants you to give me a dollar.
~ Bruce Sterling
The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.
~ Carl Guardino
The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.
~ Charles Lindbergh
When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.
~ Charles Schumer
The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'
~ Christina Romer
Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.
~ Claudia Rankine
Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.
~ Curt Schilling
Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.
~ Daniel Yergin
There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.
~ David Letterman
The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.
~ David Wessel
Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.
~ Debbie Stabenow
We have the most incompetently worked trade deals ever negotiated probably in the history of the world, and that starts with NAFTA. And now they want to go TPP, one of the great disasters.
~ Donald Trump
We're going to bring our jobs back home. And if companies want to leave Arizona and if they want to leave other states, there's going to be a lot of trouble for them. It's not going to be so easy.
~ Donald Trump
Crooked Hillary Clinton wants to raise your taxes up to the sky. She wants to raise.
~ Donald Trump
Don't forget, a lot of people want that to happen because they make a lot of money by taking money out of this country. Those deals [like NAFTA] are very good for a lot of people.
~ Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.
~ Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.
~ Donald Trump