Quotes About Economy

One of my top priorities in Congress is creating jobs and promoting a growing economy that raises the standard of living for all Americans.

The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.

A national standard for recognizing the occupational licenses of military spouses across state lines would have many potential benefits. It would help improve military family life, add to the economy, and, importantly, allow a military spouse to fulfill their career goals.

Hoover's first emphasis was on the individual, the spark for all innovation and progress. This is a man who, while commerce secretary, standardized our modern economy, from brick sizes to bed sizes, so that housewives would not be frustrated when the sheets that arrived didn't fit.

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.

In a globally interdependent world, a better financial and investment system cannot be achieved on a country-by-country basis. There may be no one-size-fits-all model for economic development, but without global standards and complementary regulations, the long-term outlook for the world economy will remain bleak.

Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.

What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.

For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong - a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to assess just how far the economy now stands from the attainment of its maximum employment goal.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.