There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level. – Carol Moseley Braun
The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development. – Anna Lindh
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. – Anatoly Chubais
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption. – Ben Bernanke
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can’t afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality. – Andrew Cuomo
If we do not act quickly, Jaxport will fall behind competitors on the East Coast – and the economic engine that has driven this community for the past decade will be put in danger. – Ander Crenshaw
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it – removing that advantage for all firms. – Barry Commoner
We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. – Alan Greenspan
As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn’t get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it’s making diapers. – Brad Stone
But what I believe is that if a person’s individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don’t issue mandates to businesses that you’ve got to do this and you’ve got to do that. – Clarence Thomas
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other. – Billy Crystal
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. – Ben Bernanke
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. – Bernie Sanders
There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters. – Andrew Ross Sorkin
Every day it seems more likely that we are destined – or should one say doomed? – to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s. – Barry Eichengreen
Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries. – Carroll Quigley
Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we’ve got to end that. If we end that, we explode economic development. – Cory Booker
In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes. – Ben Bernanke
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls – you don’t find a sense of community in malls. – Bill Bryson
We get divided generationally and in other ways – libertarians versus more traditional social conservatives, for example – and we’ve got to provide some flexibility there. But we don’t need to have quite so many litmus tests. We need to have our big picture focused on economic issues. – Asa Hutchinson
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the lawmaking honest. – Bill Dedman
By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world’s most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. – Barbara Demick
High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path. – Anthony Albanese
If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we’ve done, to go back to Bush policies – and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies. – Carl Levin
Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won’t be able to confront the migratory phenomenon. – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee