Quotes About Economy

Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

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.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

The final solution for unemployment is work.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

I often criticized what President Bush did, but President Obama is Bush's spending on steroids.

When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.

We can be about jobs and growth and be good stewards of our environment.

We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.