economy quotes

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

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

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

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

I love big business!

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

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

If 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.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

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

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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.

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

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

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.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

We 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.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

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.

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

No one saw the recession coming.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.