‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.
Joe BidenWhen a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
BonoWhen you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.
Narendra ModiThe worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.
Pope FrancisCutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
Barack ObamaI found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack ObamaThe answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.
Richard M. NixonWorking hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.
Robert KiyosakiI have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
Narendra ModiEven people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.
Clint EastwoodWhen President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.
Robert KiyosakiIt’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. TrumanI go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Abraham LincolnWorld War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
Robert KiyosakiDuring my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known – Nominee Barry Goldwater.
Jackie RobinsonWomen are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganA war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
Noam ChomskyYes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Barack ObamaThe love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard ShawPeople do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNow you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
Barack ObamaTo paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.
Ronald ReaganAre we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack ObamaNow, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.
Barack ObamaOur diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.
Colin PowellIf we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.
Madeleine AlbrightIn December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack ObamaIf the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
Noam ChomskyLuck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Hunter S. ThompsonRecession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald ReaganI didn’t pay my taxes for years.
Noam ChomskyEconomy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamForeigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.
Karl LagerfeldI can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack ObamaWe contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston ChurchillEven if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.
Robert KiyosakiI think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.
Warren BuffettI will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack ObamaI love big business!
Clint EastwoodWhat do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.
Barack ObamaYou know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.
Haruki MurakamiNo nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin FranklinI would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.
Barack ObamaEconomy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
Colin PowellUnquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. MenckenGreece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.
Noam ChomskyTrue individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. RooseveltIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin FranklinNo other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
Barack ObamaUntil we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.
Robert KiyosakiAmericans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
Bill GatesHealth is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.
Mark ZuckerbergWe believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. KennedyEven if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
Thomas SowellMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund BurkeFor any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Joe BidenI 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.
George W. BushNo money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson