In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else. – Pankaj Mishra
One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. – Dick Cheney
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war. – David K. E. Bruce
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs. – Nancy Pelosi
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. – Noam Chomsky
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. – Pope John Paul II
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically. – Federica Montseny
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. – Michael Polanyi
Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. – Denzil Douglas
With his economic speeches in response to Obama’s ‘you didn’t build that’ fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies. – David Limbaugh
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. – Douglass North
I’m basically a libertarian, and I’m a conservative on economic matters, and I’m a social liberal. – David H. Koch
Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they’re allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It’s corporations. – David Suzuki
All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars. – Debbie Wasserman Schultz
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. – Gavin Newsom
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures – sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns – some organized by popular movements. – Noam Chomsky
Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China’s first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks. – Michael Specter
U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy. – Cliff Stearns
I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market. – Nigel Lawson
I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I’ve actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions. – Marlon James
Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington. – Mike Lowry
I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration – but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. – Evo Morales
We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and inflation prompted investors to flee production in favor of protection. – Nina Easton
Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need. – Melissa Bean