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Quotes About Economy

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.
~ Bob McDonnell
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.
~ Murray Rothbard
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
~ Ludwig von Mises
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
~ Rand Paul
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
~ Milton Friedman
The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.
~ Franklin Pierce
The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
~ William Hague
The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
~ Jacque Fresco
In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.
~ Richard J. Maybury
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.
~ Eamon de Valera
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
~ Olusegun Obasanjo
Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
~ Mike Pence
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.
~ Van Jones
With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.
~ Bill Gross
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.
~ Larry Elder
The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.
~ Mark Levin
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.
~ Robert Heilbroner
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
~ Thomas Woods
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
~ Rick Perry