Famous Quotes & Sayings

If such an oil shock occurred, the risk of a hard landing would increase. Fed officials would be faced with conflicting objectives -- on one hand offsetting the restraint exerted by higher oil prices on economic activity, and on the other hand keeping inflationary expectations in check.

He has not done a good job if you look at the stock performance and the economic performance of the company.

He has faced many different kinds of economic environments. He has thrown away any kind of rule of thumb.

Pat Toomey

He has a record of supporting pro-growth economic policies.

GRE has, in fact, become the lead entity for economic development here in the community. And I think that's the most exciting thing.

He doesn't really have an economic reform policy. He's not really about to get tough in the economic sphere,

Wen Jiabao

What matter in international relations now are national interests and economic prowess,

there is a strong historical correlation between open societies and honest societies and their economic progress, so over time of course, this matters a great deal.

Byron Dorgan

There is no evidence that we ever get tough with anybody, no matter the circumstances, because most of our trade policy is mushy-headed, foreign policy rather than sound, sensible economic policy.

There is far-reaching economic recourse to the state that has not been estimated at this time. That's going to be hard to sell to the public - that they are going to pay for in taxes.

We can no longer take our economic and technological well-being for granted.

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Erin O'Connor

We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.

Benjamin Disraeli

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Momentum in the leading indicators has slowed over the past year, suggesting an impending slowdown in economic growth.

John Hostettler

Maybe we are not seeing the full effects today (of SS), but if we look forward unto tomorrow, we can actually avert an economic catastrophe, ... If we delay, hoping the problem will go away, we are simply inviting disaster.

Sylvia Porter

One of the soundest rules I try to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already

One focus for economic development is the local unemployed and underemployed,

Arlen Specter

Of all of the items which could provide an economic stimulus to the U.S. economy, I think asbestos reform would be the most important.

Jacques Chirac

No obstacle, notably economic or financial, will get in the way of useful measures to protect the health of the French people,

Joyce Banda

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

More than ever before, people are looking to the stock market as the key to the economic recovery.

Richard McCabe

Money which may have gone there has suddenly shied away, given some of the economic troubles of the Far East.

John Davidson

Maybe the market is looking for a stronger economic team. O'Neill has not been embraced by the Street and someone with stronger ties might make them happier.

Vaclav Havel

Now we have a sort of economical drying of intellectuals,

Zhu Rongji

Next year is the first year for WTO entry and we are facing an extremely serious international economic environment. Doing well on economic work next year is very important,

Edward Heath

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

There are two conflicting forces at work on the consumer. One is people have jobs, they have money, the unemployment rate is still at a 30-year low of 3.9 percent, a lot of economic circumstances are very, very favorable. A lot of economic circumstances are very, very favorable, people have money and jobs, but they don't have as high a discretionary spending level as they did a year ago.

John Sununu

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

Peter Green

Short-term, what the market is taking from the GDP report is that inflation is higher, and there's less economic growth than we thought, and that's putting a crimp on things today,

Manmohan Singh

Shortage of electricity is still a major inconvenience. Electricity is an essential ingredient of economic development. We need to ensure that electricity generation grows rapidly and that power shortages are eliminated.

She probably has enough steam to get into the harbor . . . but whether she will have the power to overhaul the German system is, I think, quite unlikely. Germans want some economic reforms, sure. But not Reaganomics that take away traditional strong social protections.