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

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

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.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

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?‘

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: ‚What is the scientific status of the claims?‘ ‚What social or ideological needs do they serve?‘

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Cutting 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.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

I love big business!

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

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

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?

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

In 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.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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

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.

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

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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

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.

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.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘

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.

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

The law is reason, free from passion.

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

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

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.

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.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

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

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

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism’s creative destruction of slower industries.

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

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Americans 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.

Even 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.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.