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“In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same way that Zuckerberg added wealth to the economy even for non-Facebook fans.”

Way Ends School Values Wealth Economy Fans Bigger Add Efficient Zuckerberg Snobby

Author:Amity Shlaes

“Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.”

Needs Humans Country States Political Economy Rights Modern Democratic Profound Human Rights Protection Opening Our Country Reform Ideological Opening Up Pluralism Mixed Economy

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.”

Years Levels Economy Streets Dangerous Wall Percent Financial Billions Productive Gambling Speculation Deficit Fees

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Together Grows Economy Succeed Majority International Overwhelming

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.”

Whole Economy Environmental Sustainability Obsolescence Planned Obsolescence

Author:Brooks Stevens

“I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?”

Thinking Should Done Helping Economy Forever Murder Suspended Helping Someone

Author:George Steinbrenner

“In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.”

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Author:John J. Sweeney

“Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe.”

Wells Littles Done Would Be America Pay Attention Economy Europe Reputation Latin Engines Emerging Latin America Global Economy Colombia Emerging Economies

Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.”

People Knows Way Kind Matter Hard Facts Running Three Can Do Cases Economy Plans Office Oil Mislead Global Economy Gasoline Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Running For Office Gasoline Prices

Author:Ken Salazar

“I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.”

People Thinking Kind Roles Economy Involved Promise Activity Various Crucial I Promise Retail

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.”

States Age Political Economy Economics Priorities Separation Urgent

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.”

World Made Ideas Economy Rights Safe Intellectual Property Protection Adopted Innovative Property Rights Patents Intellectual Property

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Hard Care Principles Economy Economic Hard Truths Specifics Doctoring Tender Loving Care

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.”

Ifs World Ideas Economy Cutting Increase Infinite Protection Productivity Controlled New Ideas Incentives

Author:Manmohan Singh

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.”

Important Country Play Roles Economy Capacity India Entrepreneur Our Country Occasions Scope Private Sector Mixed Economy

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.”

Thinking Has Beens Economy Standards India Western Driven Market Economy Public Sector Mixed Economy

Author:Manmohan Singh

“It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.”

Lying Economy Climate Climate Change Aliens Corporate Surprising

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.”

Humans Found Goal Economy Worship Golden Dictatorship Lacking Cult Heartless Calves Faceless

Author:Pope Francis

“The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.”

Years Lasts Courses Half Economy Right Now Cycles Locked Last Time Presidency Weathered

Author:David Talbot

“Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.”

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Author:Don Tapscott

“When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.”

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Author:Jim Talent

“This economy is not getting better and the president's policies are the reason.”

Reason President Economy Policy Get Better

Author:Jim Talent

“Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.”

Cities Economy Nice Cold Very Nice Wintertime Helsinki

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.”

Ifs Wells Country Jobs Economy Environment Environmental International Protection Participation Emissions Environmental Protection

Author:Fred Upton

“The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.”

Economy Recovery

Author:George Voinovich

“One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.”

Kind Culture Social Levels Cases Economy Organization Remarkable Resilient Slums Social Organization

Author:Geoffrey West

“I would say that my parents were supportive of me.”

Parent Economy Supportive

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.”

States Whole United United States Economy Industry Financial

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.”

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Author:Sanford I. Weill

“I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.”

Thinking Knows World Want Problem Would Be Economy Serious Right Now Producers Shock Down The Road World Economy

Author:Daniel Yergin

“I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.”

Believe I Believe Situation Economy

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.”

Thinking Way Running Economy Ugly Best Way Inequality Massive

Author:Thomas Frank

“We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.”

Made President Economy Progress Office Percent Nine President Obama

Author:Mitt Romney

“We need to make sure and that we can continue to move forward in creating jobs and getting the economy turned around. The best way to do that is to make sure that we can get Congress to adopt the American Jobs Act.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."”

Certain Economy Function Bases Relation Thanks Discourse Circulation Knowledge And Power

Author:Michel Foucault

“Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.”

“In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.”

Government Care Liberty Economy Chains Administration Health Care Interfere Destroyers Health Care System

Author:Thomas Frank

“The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.”

Men Looks Country Facts Helping Term Economy Men And Women Labor Corporations Working Man Outsourcing American Economy

Author:Lou Dobbs

“Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.”

Goal Economy Democracy Labor Rational Arrangements Contributing

Author:John L. Lewis

“Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous”

“The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.”

Has Beens Problem Difficult Economy Plant California Site Power Plants

Author:Kenneth Lay

“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.”

“You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.”

Knows Play Government Individual Force Causes Natural Effort Economy Taken Bases Investment Accountability

Author:Mike Lee

“Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.”

America Community Quality Responsibility Economy Congress Secure Agendas Taking Responsibility Innovative Quality Of Life

Author:Rick Larsen

“Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.”

Helping Seems Jobs Difficult Struggle Economy Creating Method Senate Colleagues Creating Jobs

Author:Al Franken

“Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.”

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Author:Damian Marley

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