Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

When I started out we used to flood this whole plain. We're gonna reach the point where it will no longer be economical to pump water. We may already be there today.

The story is all about oil. This is still a fluid situation but we have enough information to feel comfortable lowering our economic growth estimate even further.

William Cohen

The taxpayers paid for this. Right now they're getting no economic value from it. Zero.

Pope John Paul II

The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.

Pope Francis

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

Pope Francis

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

Peter McWilliams

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals

Thomas Sowell

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.

Robin Williams

Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

Walter Annenberg

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

Wayne Swan

Australians have defied global economic gravity.

Herb Ritts

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Jeremy Grantham

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. Its shocking.

Jeff Sessions

Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal.

Hillary Clinton

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

Eugene Hutz

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

Hugo Chavez

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

Generally speaking, they're usually not looking at those opportunities unless there's some economic pressure to do so.

Generally speaking, amid the slowing trend in the global economy in the first quarter, China's economic situation was good.

John Fahey

Geographic illiteracy impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment, and isolates us from the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Frank Knight

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Eve Ensler

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

Frances O'Grady

The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Impact of economic expansion has finally spread to consumers.

The biotech industry is seeking to minimize human life for economic purposes, ... They're trying to redefine when life begins.

Dolores Huerta

Not spending any money at all would show the economic impact of Latino purchasing power.

Dan Burton

Tax increases aren't the answer. It would remove income from Americans' pockets, slow or stagnate job creation, and potentially lead to an overall economic downturn.

George Osborne

Taxes have gone up, spending has gone up, waste of government money has vastly increased, and I think people will say he frittered away a very strong economic inheritance.

Donald Tsang

Strong government is a prerequisite for economic development.

It's important for the foreign exchange market to reflect economic fundamentals and move steadily.