“One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.” CountryStatesPresidentPoorUnitedUnited StatesEconomyWeaponsConcernUnionsBurdenNuclearDevelopingSovietNuclear WeaponsConventionalOther CountriesSoviet UnionArsenalProliferationPoor Countries Author:Jimmy Carter
“We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsLongCountryReasonEnoughCertainStruggleEconomyPrideAmountOur CountryConquerNo ReasonModestyConquer The WorldNational Pride Author:Ratan Tata
“Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are the world's mouth. They make things in other countries, and they're like, 'Send it to America; they'll eat it.'” WorldNeedsCountryHumorFunnyAmericaEconomyHonestMouthsConsumersBeing HonestAppetiteOther Countries Author:Marc Maron
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis
“We Americans are free to give our opinions and make our voices heard. We work in a free enterprise economy that, for over 200 years, has lifted countless individuals above the circumstances of their birth to achieve their God-given potential. We have been an exceptional country because, here, people are free to practice their faiths and worship God.” PeopleGivingYearsHas BeensCountryIndividualGivenVoiceOpinionPracticeEconomyHeardAchieveBirthCircumstancesWorshipEnterpriseExceptionalWorship GodFree Enterprise Author:Marco Rubio
“70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We admit that it's legal, constitutional, that the private sector is entitled to its own economy, but to ensure these profound changes that clearly this government is promoting, including profound changes in the food industry, what we are doing is an important step.” ImportantCountryStatesGovernmentStepsEconomyIndustryPercentProfoundIncludingControlledEntitledPromotingPercentagesPrivate SectorFood Industry Author:Evo Morales
“War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.” MeanWarEndsCountryWould BeLastsFightingEnemyEconomyDestructionArmyPropertySoldierStrikesDamageCampsTrenchesContinuance Author:Stonewall Jackson
“I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.” GivingImportantCountryHomeInterestPayEconomySeriousConcernProgramDebtSpendingBillionsPrudentForeign Countries Author:Tim Johnson
“The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.” CountryEconomyRelationshipDevelopmentConnectionsProsperityReliefConstructionExpansionPacificRailroadsClose Relationship Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
“Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.” PeopleCountryBigsGovernmentEconomyEnvironmentMediaStyleIncludingOur CountryCorporationsIronRebellionPopulismBig Corporations Author:Jim Hightower
“There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.” WantMeanLongCountryStatesFallViewsEconomyPathCitizensEuropeSafetyBurdenAbsenceAdmireAustraliaNeedyAmerican SocietySafety NetNanniesPaternalism Author:John Howard
“Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.” MenWayCountryRunningGuySufferingDiesWhitePoorPayCitiesEconomyPercentAreasFortuneSevenOur CountryCeoWhite ManNinetyLendingPredatory Author:Ralph Nader
“I think most people, when they take a look at the candidates and the positions of the candidates, realize that protecting this country and keeping this economy going are the two most important issues. And you can't protect the country if you retreat from overseas, and you can't keep the economy growing if you raise taxes. And that's exactly what the Democrats in the House would like to do.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksTwoImportantCountryHouseRealizingEconomyIssuesGrowingPositionProtectTaxesRaisesDemocratCandidatesRetreatImportant Issues Author:George W. Bush
“I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.” ThinkingMadeCountryMatterCertainDecisionEconomyProtect Author:George W. Bush
“What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.” WantCountrySeemsEconomyStandardsUnionsTrendsRobustStandards Of LivingGlobal EconomyAmerican Economy Author:James P. Hoffa
“Most countries choose to have government run the economy.” CountryGovernmentRunningEconomy Author:Marco Rubio
“The governments and the communist parties in Vietnam and China are doing their best to develop their local economies. But the rise of countries in Asia is not in opposition to development and affluence in Western nations. It is a mutually beneficial development. The interests of Western investors are protected in our country. Both we and the West benefit from this in equal measure.” CountryGovernmentNationsInterestPartyEconomyDevelopmentEqualBenefitsWestWesternChinaLocalsOur CountryOppositionCommunistInvestorsVietnamProtectedAsiaBeneficialAffluenceCommunist Party Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“I am impressed by the positive and insightful feedback we have received from Canadians across the country and again this morning in Brampton. The input received during the pre-budget consultation process is invaluable to our Government, as we move forward in keeping Canada's economy strong. That means keeping taxes low while investing in programs and services that are important to Canadians and their families.” MeanImportantCountryGovernmentMovingStrongProcessMorningEconomyTaxesLowsProgramInvestingMoving ForwardBudgetsCanadaInsightfulImpressedFeedbackInputInvaluableConsultation Author:Kevin Sorenson
“If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries and they'll be less reliant on the developed world for help.” PeopleIfsWorldWayGivingCountryHelpingUseCareChanceEconomyDiseaseResourcesBurdenHealth CareOther CountriesHopelessnessLimited ResourcesDeadly Diseases Author:Laura Bush
“Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world crisis, the external political and economic pressure, and the internal problems and constraints that have built up in our economy” WorldCountryProblemTodayPoliticalThreeCausesEconomyGroupsEconomicEffectsBuiltCrossesPressureCrisisOur CountryInternalsConstraints Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“Zimbabwe is a lost country. There is no money in Zimbabwe, everything stands still. The economy of the country is in shambles, the inflation is the highest in this world.” WorldStillsCountryLostEconomyThis WorldHighestInflationNo MoneyZimbabweShambles Author:Thomas Mapfumo
“Throwing Ronald Reagan out of office at the height of his popularity, with inflation and interest rates down, the economy moving and the country at peace, would have required God on the ticket and She was not available!” CountryMovingInterestEconomyOfficeRateAvailableHeightThrowingPopularityTicketsInflationInterest Rate Author:Geraldine Ferraro
“A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.” ShouldBelieveCountryGovernmentIndividualEnemyEconomyOughtNeededProtectFunctionViolentPhrasesDescriptionGangstersMarket Economy Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
“...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.” WayShouldCountryGovernmentCompanyRolesEconomyEnvironmentEconomicDevelopmentEntrepreneurEconomic Development Author:John Naisbitt
“Now, many Americans fear that China might grow too strong ... I'm more worried that America might be getting too weak. It's not bad for the United States if other nations have a strong economy. One fewer hungry-mouthed country wanting us to take care of it and its people is great news. If they have money, maybe they will buy the things we innovate and make.” PeopleIfsCountryStatesMightCareAmericaStrongNationsGrowsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyNewsWeakChinaTake CareHungryWorriedFewerStrong EconomyGreat News Author:Mike Huckabee
“In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.” WayCountryStatesTodayEarthWealthUnitedUnited StatesEconomyChangedMajorsFundamentalsIncomeDistributionIncome Distribution Author:Bernie Sanders