Quotes About Economy

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

Good government has to mean less government.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.