Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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.

Russia is using strong economic levers. With the growth of oil and gas exports it has become much richer than it was in the 1990s and it is translating this economic might into political influence and power.

Predicting the long-awaited U.S. economic slowdown can be a risky business,

President Hu explained, and the president agreed, strengthening enforcement on intellectual property rights is good for U.S. and foreign investigators and exporters, but it's also good for China's long-term economic growth.

Damian Lewis

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

Matthew Robinson

Reality TV makes good economic sense. And, perhaps more important, these shows are just plain entertaining.

Prices of utilities and other stocks have reached levels that don't look sustainable at the moment, given the overall economic environment.

Propelled by good economic figures, investors are more and more expecting the BOJ to move up the schedule for the end of its zero-rate policy. That's supporting the yen.

John Stevens

Promoting economic development is a traditional and long-accepted function of government,

Charles Sawyer

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.

Mike Fitzpatrick

At some point, this has to have a deleterious economic effect.

At the 11th hour they made a substantial economic offer which we're going to evaluate. We're going to come back with another economic offer, but there are still very troubling issues on the table.

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

Down the road, economic indicators are going to show slowing growth.

The university is the single largest economic generator in Pima County.

This economic recovery is a lot more fragile than most of us thought.

Think positively! Pull your finance together as soon as possible during the economic slowdown. Don't wait for things to happen to you. Shave off some extra expenses, refinance that home loan, restructure some of your debts...

Tom Coburn

This is a moral question, Not an economic issue.

This, in a political sense and an economic sense, could have profound impact on virtually all governments in Wisconsin. It could be one of the most significant things the Legislature has done in years. It's a good election year issue, frankly.

Edward Kennedy

This has been an issue that we've been raising for over two years. And during that time those at the end of the economic ladder have been falling further and further behind.

They (the Fed) are making sure they keep the economic stimulus in place because there is a lot of uncertainty.

Jared Bernstein

A lot of economic indicators are up. But there are a lot of people in the economy who are still down.

Frank Murkowski

Alaska's gas has been stranded because the economics weren't there to support development, ... But now that's changed.

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

You've got to spend money to get money. That's an important part of economic development ... If you are going to label me as a 'spendthrift,' as they've tried to do, then that means you don't spend anything at all and the economic development goes down the drain.

Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you want.

James Surowiecki

You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.