“The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?” PeopleKnowsPlayJobsPoliticalSufferingGamesCan DoClassEconomyTeacherMiddleRight NowWeakWorkersMiddle ClassPocketsConstructionVeteranCan Do SomethingConstruction WorkersPolitical Games Author:David Plouffe
“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.” ImportantCountryPlayRolesEconomyCapacityIndiaEntrepreneurOur CountryOccasionsScopePrivate SectorMixed Economy Author:Manmohan Singh
“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.” KnowsPlayGovernmentIndividualForceCausesNaturalEffortEconomyTakenBasesInvestmentAccountability Author:Mike Lee
“Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.” PeoplePlayNationsPartyEconomyReadyDemocratCreditChickensCounterpartsGop Author:Peter Welch
“The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.” ShouldHas BeensPlayGovernmentStrongNationsRolesEconomyEvidenceFinanceInterventionMessyMortgageRecessionsGovernment InterventionGreat Recession Author:Mark Zandi
“In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.” ThinkingWayNeedsPlayNextWealthEconomySucceedCreatingFollowingDecadesRevolutionaryDimensionsIntroducingFootstepsIncumbentsIntroducing New Author:Goh Chok Tong
“The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.” StatesPlayRolesEconomyActiveProducersConsumersEquilibriumConstituents Book:Memoirs Source: Memoirs
“In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.” PeopleWantPlayLyingEconomyPlayerHollywoodTennisCheatingCheatTennis PlayerPeople Lie Author:David Geffen
“I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk-takers being rewarded. But I also believe that everybody should have a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules, because that's how our economy's grown. That's how we built the world's greatest middle class.” WorldShouldBelieveSelfPlayIndividualI BelieveKnownClassEconomyRiskShareMiddleShotsBuiltFairsShould HaveProsperityI Believe InEnterpriseMiddle ClassEnginesInitiativeSelf RelianceRelianceFree EnterpriseFair Share Author:Barack Obama
“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.” IfsNeedsMadeSelfPlayPoliticsEconomyPoetMastersToolsTasksMovedSlaveServantLiberalismStatuesAssemblyCraftsmanBiddingTripods Author:Aristotle
“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.” PeopleIfsLittlesEnoughPlayAmericaPoliticsWishCommonKnownLibertyEconomyTakenRightsBloodHonestyOffersMassFairsProofCommon SenseLiberalismExpensesNow And ThenThreateningTempestSecuredFair Play Book:Correspondence Source: Correspondence
“Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more the wealth of the rich and the dominion of the strong, whilst leaving the poor in their misery and adding to the servitude of the oppressed.” StillsPlayWisdomPoliticsIndividualStrongWealthPoorEconomySuccessfulRichRiskDevelopmentCompetitionMiseryMereLeavingLiberalismInitiativeOppressedDominionServitudeFree Play Book:On the development of peoples Source: On the development of peoples
“And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.” PlayUsedMotherFightingHurtEconomyStreetsInevitableBrooklynSave Me Author:Sanford I. Weill
“Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.” MayPlayPrayerEconomyDivine Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with.... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence -- that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.” PlayEasyExistenceEconomyRiskAmountEquityUnhealthyEasy Money Author:Anat R. Admati
“Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.” PeopleWorldBelieveImportantPlayRolesEconomyCenturyParticularEngines21st CenturyAsiaPacificGlobal EconomyWorld Economy Author:Li Keqiang
“Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.” PlaySchoolRolesEconomyGrowingTalentCoupleEnginesCaregivers Author:Indra Nooyi
“I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?” LongPlayRunningOrderEconomyRepublicanArgumentCleverGet BackObamacareMedicare Author:Jennifer Granholm
“The U.S. couldn't play a military role in different areas like Iraq and Afghanistan without huge quantities of oil. So a shortage or disruption in oil would not only damage the U.S. economy; it would undercut American military supremacy.” DifferentPlayRolesEconomyMilitaryHugeAreasIraqOilDamageAfghanistanQuantityDisruptionShortageSupremacyAmerican MilitaryUndercut Author:Michael Klare
“In the economy we guarantee all market players the same conditions, and the private sector plays an increasingly important role. We are in the process of dissolving thousands of state-owned companies and converting them into stock corporations. We even plan to accelerate this development. In contrast, it is the party's responsibility to improve the lives of the people, and this is where our citizens have great confidence in us. Party members who commit crimes are severely punished.” PeopleImportantStatesPlayProcessPartyResponsibilityCompanyRolesEconomyPlayerPlansConditionsCrimeDevelopmentCitizensMembersCommitCorporationsGuaranteesContrastPrivate SectorConvertingAccelerateDissolvingGreat Confidence Author:Nguyen Minh Triet
“It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and his friends. They can play around with statistics as much as they want, but it's clear that we have an unfair distribution of wealth.” WantDifferentPlayPresidentWealthEconomyClearPerceptionSurpriseAverageStatisticsUnfairDistributionUs PresidentPresident George W BushDistribution Of WealthDifferent Perceptions Author:Kenneth Rogoff
“The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.” PlayHappensRolesEconomyFunctionFinancialActiveFinancial Markets Author:George Soros