Famous Quotes & Sayings

We expect housing to start slowing the economy this quarter or the next.

We feel pretty optimistic about the second half of the year and where the economy is heading. And this June sales report kicks off a good summer for Ford in several key areas.

You have to put a question mark around just how long the global economy can live at $60 a barrel.

Sitaram Yechury

We will object if the economy is being looted. The question is what type of reforms. If the reforms are pro-people, we are pro-reform. If the reforms are anti-people, we are anti-reform.

There's not much reason to be optimistic about the U.K. economy for now. As rate-cut speculation increases, the pound will come under more pressure.

There's nothing wrong with the economy right now. That's not the issue,

the transition of North Carolina's economy from textiles and tobacco to tourism and technology.

Alan Greenspan

is larger than that of Japan, and may be approaching half the size of the American economy.

Tony Blair

is going to have a huge impact on the future economy of Europe and therefore the future of the people of Europe.

I've been negative on the industry outlook for quite some time. I think next year is going to be a down year with competitive pricing. The economy is slowing and housing, which tends to be the swing factor, is slowing. I think it's going to be more of a replacement market next year.

The realization that has moved into the market is that the price of oil will probably decline, and that the impact of Katrina, as horrible as it is to the people in the Gulf area, is not going to impact the economy in too great a way. Therefore, investors are comfortable with the prospect that growth is going to be pretty strong.

Andrew Card

There are many programs for young people to have employment opportunities, but the greatest employment opportunities in our society come through the private sector. And so I don't think that everyone who is looking for a job should expect or even want a job with the federal government or one of our agencies. In fact, our economy would not do very well if people just worked for the government.

We started to make investments in the Illinois economy to help the Illinois economy evolve. We're starting to see the fruits of those investments now.

Dan Simmons

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

We often see fluctuations (in the jobless rate) as the economy improves. One month does not make a trend.

We've been saying for some time that if oil hits $70 a barrel, that puts the economy at a tipping point where if there were some other serious problems, we could fall into recession, ... they would leave the economy vulnerable to some other shock that might come along.

We view the economy more or less the same as 2005.

We can't really track what is going on in the underground economy.

Vandana Shiva

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

This report paints a picture very similar to the fall survey and shows an economy practically at full capacity.

This report kind of confirms the market's fears that the economy is limping around on just one foot. At same time, I don't think this report is telling us we're moving toward a recession.

The reason why the economy has grown at this pace is because of the banks' lending terms. If they don't want to economy to grow so much, they need to tighten their lending terms.

John Thompson

The reason we own Microsoft is because once the economy improves we expect an upgrade in the PC cycle. All this other stuff is noise.

We aren't a burden, we're a part of the economy of this country. The economy wouldn't be the same without immigrants.

We have a trillion-dollar economy that is teetering on top of this fragile levee system. Shame on us if we can't act.

We have not seen the global economy improve and we're not expecting it to in the (fiscal) first quarter or maybe the 2Q as well,

Jan Schakowsky

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

There is no question the economy is slowing.

Jamie Dimon

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.

The problem with the economy right now is insufficient demand, not supply. The meat and potatoes of this plan is supply-side medicine for a demand-side problem.

Gregory Smith

The real estate market has been one of the big successes in the economy for the last 10 years. I think this would help pull the rug out from under it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

There is a lot of extra fiscal stimulus moving into the economy from the storm relief.