Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Churchwell

The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Anita Roddick

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

Alan Greenspan

Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

Dannel Malloy

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

Tourism is an economic driver. If we get people here to spend money, then we all benefit.

Steven Rattner

India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Vladimir Putin

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

John Davidson

I think what's going to be key going forward will be the tradeoff (in the economic news) between the statistics on employment and statistics on inflation.

I think between now and the end of the year, the market is going to have a mild upward bias. There is nothing that will come out on the economic front next week that will redirect the market.

We still have quite a few economic speakers that everyone wants to listen to.

John Davidson

Tomorrow is probably one of the more important economic release days. My guess is that as the market started moving up today, people do not want to be short going into those numbers.

Jose Barroso

We should refuse nationalism of an economic kind, especially in the energy sector in Europe.

Low interest rates are usually attributed to low inflation, weak economic growth and super easy monetary policy. But there's another deep-seated factor that doesn't get much attention: demographics.

Without earnings, without any Federal Reserve noise, without economic indicators that really move the needle, you're into more of a technical impact next week,

Martin Jacques

Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world.

Camille Paglia

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

When the fog of war is finally lifted, we may find that economic growth remains weak because monetary policy turns out to be less accommodative than the Fed thought,

We want to work with GE and keep them happy, but the key goal for long-term economic health is to diversify.

Tony Blair

We want to work to take the relationship between Europe and Russia to a new and more intense and strengthened level, ... This is a relationship in economic terms that can only grow and prosper and strengthen.

Jay Rockefeller

The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

The president is viewing the economy realistically that there is very strong job growth, but he will not be satisfied until every American looking for work can find work. The overwhelming evidence is that this economy is very strong and that's because of the president's economic program.

In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.

Andrei Lankov

There are no visible signs of economic reform, There's a big difference.

Ben Bernanke

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

Bill Ackman

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

Bill Gross

In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'

Al Sharpton

All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.

This will have more political rather than economic ramifications.

This will do great economic harm to my business.

This was an economic development investment. We're glad we did it.

There are great social and economic impacts that (officials) don't talk about.