Quotes About Economy

The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

The truth of the matter is, the policies of this administration, which Hillary Clinton and Senator Kaine want to continue, have run this economy into a ditch.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.

When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.

In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.