Quotes About Economic

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

If I had a dream, it would be that most of the countries in the world, and especially in Europe and the U.S... have more alignment on a set of principles of tax and economic reform that would create an environment that would be more consistent first, definitely more stable.

I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Our leaders cannot and should not give up when compromise seems out of reach, especially when the economic security of South Carolinians is at stake.

I still try to treat football as a game even if there are now other considerations at stake, especially economic ones.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.

When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

On many key global economic issues, Russia's loyalty is divided between the West and the South. As an energy exporter, it stands opposite energy importing China and India. As a commodity trader resisting the influx of cheap Chinese manufactures, its interests in the WTO clash with those of many of the developing economies.

In Iowa, we're fortunate to have a public-private initiative called the EPIC Corporate Challenge. EPIC stands for 'Economic Potential for Iowa Companies and Communities.'

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

Tocqueville understood, as few modern writers do, that pauperism is above all a psychological, not an economic, condition.

The roster of progressives who advocated exclusion of hereditary inferiors reads like a Who's Who of American economic reform.

For Nebraska and for America, I will continue my commitment to our national security, economic security, and family security.

Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.