“Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.” PeopleFeelsKindStatesGovernmentPastStrongGrowthNaturalSeeingCenturyAnxietyWeakInevitableAlarmsSmackStrong GovernmentWeak Government Author:Irving Kristol
“The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.” GrowthClearDangerAll ThingsWeakPerceiveRemedy Book:Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio
“We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.” EndsStatesDifficultGrowthSituationDutyEuropeWeakCrisisFranceUnemploymentMandatesDifficult Situations Author:Francois Hollande
“It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.” KnowsYearsStatesDifficultGrowthEconomyEconomicExampleEuropeYears AgoWeakDollarsRateZoneTiedCurrencyArgentinaParameters Author:Vladimir Putin
“One of the great drivers of the alienation that has made Donald Trump possible is that the growth in the American economy has been weak. In the decade from 2005 to 2015, there was not one year when the US hit three per cent growth. And to the extent there's been growth, virtually all of it has been collected by the top 10 per cent of the population. Obviously, if we knew how to make growth faster, we would. We don't. And it's very difficult to make growth more broadly shared. Because it's not just the US that has this problem.” ProblemDifficultGrowthEconomyWeakAlienation Author:David Frum