Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Smith

A fan that's looking for an economic weekend of entertainment can still go watch racing, get a good ticket and enjoy themselves.

David Keene

The one big strategic error -- which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions -- was the prescription drug bill.

Stockwell Day

After 30 years of Pearson-Trudeau-Mulroney economic liberalism, the federal Government discovered, by observing the provinces, that the fiscal conservatism of Mackenzie King and St. Laurent had been right all along.

After last week's great run, the market is directionless. We're somewhat hostage until we get more proof that the economy is slowing.

After last week's great run, the market is directionless, ... We're somewhat hostage until we get more proof that the economy is slowing.

Martin Jacques

After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

An economy in neutral has started to move forward.

Sonia Gandhi

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources ... to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

An economic improvement is spreading through all of Japan. We expect Japan's fourth quarter GDP to show a pretty good performance.

Employment is likely to be much weaker going forward and the jobless rate will keep rising as the economy cools. Interest rates are on hold.

Europe will rely less on Wall Street, as economic trends take over.

Essentially it seems mankind has passed the point of 'environmental sustainability' upon which economic and social sustainability depends.

Europe can now play the role on the international stage that its economic weight entitles it to,

Ethanol plants really mean economic development down at the farm level - and this is great for our livestock industry as well,

Janet Yellen

Estimates of the extent of spending are escalating, and the recovery and bounce-back, fueled by massive fiscal stimulus, could propel the U.S. economy on an unsustainable upward trajectory,

Even before the attack, the economy seems to have relapsed into the doldrums,

Even as a moderate slowing in US growth looms, growth prospects have improved for other engines of the world economy.

During the Sanford administration, economic development has come to a virtual standstill, public jobs have been sold to big, out-of-state corporations, and now one of every 14 South Carolinians is jobless.

First quarter economic growth is proving quite robust. With showrooms awash in new products and the spring selling season upon us, the industry should be going strong in March.

Fluctuation is normal after a run-up. The economic news is not good and it's not going to be good for a while, but we are in recovery mode.

Sue Kelly

Farming in our rural communities is not just an economic industry, but a way of life.

There's uncertainty with the impact of higher interest rates as to whether it will slow the economy down, and I feel that it won't, and thus we'll have even higher interest rates.

The result of Nkrumah's handling of the economy was calamitous. Ghana by 1965 had become virtually bankrupt.

The result of Nkrumah's handling of the economy was calamitous, ... Ghana by 1965 had become virtually bankrupt.

The result is there are economies which remain vulnerable to event risk, to a more challenging global environment, or to populism.

There's quite a healthy outlook for the economy and inflationary pressures are fairly subdued. I can't see why they need to do anything. They'll keep the policy statement unchanged.

There's quite a gap between husbands' and wives' reports of their financial status. These differences may have significant impacts on everything from a couple's relationship to national reports of economic statistics.

The revised statistics show that China's economic structure is more reasonable and healthy than the previous figures showed.

There's still significant economies of scale to be had. It's going to help to buoy the price of many utility shares because there will be a natural wave of speculation as to who will be next.

There's so much liquidity in the economy right now that, left alone, it could become fuel for inflation, ... I can see the Fed taking preventive measures to ensure inflation doesn't become a problem.

Peter Greene

There's some worry that the economic growth won't be as strong as had been hoped and that's taking stocks lower, ... It's the combination of GDP not growing as fast as had been hoped, and the Dow Transports, which is a leading economic indicator, falling as well.

There's a feeling that enough has been done to slow the economy down and the next phase must be up, that growth will start to pick up again.