Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Are 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?

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

Yes, 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.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

No one saw the recession coming.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Now 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.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

I 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.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

To 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.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

I 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.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.