Quotes About Economy

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.