Quotes About Economy

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.