Economy Quotes

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

The unemployed have a very important job: they are a safety net for the wealthy.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.

The G.O.P. budget plan isn't a good-faith effort to put America's fiscal house in order; it's voodoo economics, with an extra dose of fantasy, and a large helping of mean-spiritedness.

Economy was always "elegant," and money-spending always "vulgar" and ostentatious - a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisifed.

Then came the crash of 1929, which began what we now call the great depression. I found it difficult to understand why millions were out of work, homeless, starving, while all the factories were sitting there. The resources were unchanged. It was then that I realised that the rules of the economic game were inherently invalid.

You're not just tech innovators, you're job creators.

It costs money. It costs money because it saves money.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. The cost to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blilghted by the absence of jobs, will be immense.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it.
They failed and it closed. Now, we are trusting the economy of our country and 850+ Billion Dollars to a pack of nitwits who couldn’t make money running a whorehouse and selling booze.

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.

Today is the day that an abstract debate about spreadsheets and numbers turns into stark reality for people's jobs and services.

The years ahead will not be easy but they will make the difference our country needs. Stick with us while we rebuild the economy. Stick with us while we restore our civil liberties, protect our environment, nurture our children and repair our broken politics. Stick with us and together we will change Britain for good.

We must avoid a decade of debt, we must build a generation of growth.