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?
Barack ObamaThe dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.
John MuirThe real minimum wage is zero.
Thomas SowellFor 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 BidenPutin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.
Joe BidenCapitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
Bill GatesDo you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.
John D. RockefellerThe very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
Noam ChomskyWe hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Steve JobsProsperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Herbert HooverNow 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 ObamaTrust is central to an economy that works.
Stephen CoveyAs capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
Robert KiyosakiBuilding new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Barack ObamaWorld War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
Robert KiyosakiPeople do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAnd what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.
George W. BushThe 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 FrancisThere is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
Noam ChomskyFolks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.
Joe BidenIf you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.
John KennedyDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David ThoreauTariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
Thomas SowellI think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt VonnegutSome 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.
Winston ChurchillThe wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
David ByrneStopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
Thomas SowellIt started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.
Frank OceanSee, 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.
Michelle ObamaYou 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.‘
Joe BidenNobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
Bill GatesThe economy’s always been the engine for our national security.
Jim MattisIf you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.
Noam ChomskyIf you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
Christopher HitchensI 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 ObamaThe pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Narendra ModiYou can’t hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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.
Ronald ReaganIt’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 AlbrightWomen are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerClearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle ObamaWe Conservatives hate unemployment.
Margaret ThatcherThere are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
Herbert HooverIn 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.
Joe BidenEven 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 SowellI feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
Mark ZuckerbergAgriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel JohnsonBy 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
Bill GatesThe United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel CastroIndia’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhen 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 ModiDuring most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
Kurt VonnegutEven people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.
Clint EastwoodI just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren BuffettIt is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund BurkeLandlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl MarxWealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
H. L. MenckenWe 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.
Barack ObamaSpaceX 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.
Elon MuskThe love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw