“Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?” DoeClassPrinciplesEconomicTrumpDemocratWarfareClass Warfare Author:Cal Thomas
“I think what Donald Trump is saying to people is that America has way more leverage at the negotiating table than America has used in the past. And whether you like it or not, the government and trade representatives have made the decision not to use that leverage. And it has had an economic impact on the lower and middle class.” PeopleThinkingWayMadeUseGovernmentAmericaPastUsedDecisionClassEconomicMiddleTrumpTablesTradeImpactMiddle ClassRepresentativesYou Like ItNegotiating Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our new friends Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump. Or that they would do so without an economic plan, a trading strategy, or a credible leader, making the average Briton's future more uncertain than any time since the Blitz.” LongNationsTermWalksHalfLeaderPlansEconomicArmsTrumpStrategyAverageLong TermPensAlliesUncertainTradingMarinePutinCredibleNew FriendsBlitzBritons Author:Brian Reade
“I think Donald Trump is moving to - and will continue to move to the economic argument, as to why what he's doing is - represents a commitment to stand up to big business, to international corporations who favor more immigration and lower wages - that's what they favor - and a defense of the interest of the American people who go to work every day.” PeopleThinkingBigsMovingInterestEconomicTrumpCommitmentArgumentInternationalDefenseFavorsImmigrationCorporationsWagesBig Business Author:Jeff Sessions
“I liked Donald's Trump speech on foreign policy. What he's showing is that his fundamental views are solid, and that there's an intellectual basis for this, an economic basis for what he's saying, and that can lead him to victory.” ViewsEconomicPolicyTrumpVictorySpeechIntellectualBasesFundamentalsForeign Policy Author:Jeff Sessions
“One independent expert - actually, the economist who advised John McCain in 2008, so, you know, not somebody that has any predisposition toward our side - but this economist did a study. He said under [Donald] Trump's economic plans, we would lose in America 3 and a half million jobs.” KnowsSaidJobsAmericaSidesLosesHalfMillionsStudyPlansEconomicTrumpIndependentExpertsEconomistMccain Author:Hillary Clinton
“What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which might be a personal record for Donald Trump - the source of a lot of his numbers on the free trade section of the speech came from an organization called the Economic Policy Institute, which was a think tank or is a think tank that was founded by labor unions to promote the labor unions' point of view on free trade agreements.” ThinkingWayMightInterestingViewsNumbersRecordsWrittenEconomicPolicySourceTrumpSpeechLaborOrganizationTradeUnionsPoint Of ViewVersionsAgreementSectionsTanksReally InterestingInstituteFree TradeEconomic PolicyLabor UnionFootnotesTrade Agreements Author:Avik Roy
“Donald Trump wants to dramatically reduce America's corporate tax rate (to 15%) and thereby unleash economic growth. Hillary Clinton hasn't said a word about lowering corporate tax rates. Being a Fedzillacrat, you don't need to be an economic soothsayer to know that she supports taxing the producers and further strangling America's anemic economy.” KnowsWantNeedsSaidAmericaGrowthSupportEconomyEconomicTrumpTaxesClintonRateProducersCorporateEconomic GrowthStrangling Author:Ted Nugent
“One of the things [Donald] Trump has done is tie into particularly what would be the sons and daughters of Reagan Democrats in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, who are voting for him because they feel both parties left them on the economic battlefield.” FeelsDoneWould BeLeftPartyEconomicSonTrumpDaughterDemocratTiesVotingBattlefieldsOhioMichiganPennsylvaniaWisconsinSon And Daughter Author:John Brabender
“I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.” ThinkingWayProblemValuesEvilUnderstandingGreaterEconomicStreetsPolicyWallTrumpStandingMiseryClintonSolveVotingTerritoryFertileLesser EvilDeregulationNafta Author:Jill Stein
“[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.” PeopleWayNumbersSupportGroupsEconomicTrumpEasierCrisisBlameRaisedImmigrantsVocabularyMurdererLatinoIntersectionsEconomic CrisisHappenstanceScumbags Author:Junot Diaz
“As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldSaidEconomicMovementTrumpDespairMiseryAround The World Author:Jill Stein
“Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.” EconomicTrumpRepublicanLowsStandardsScales Author:Mark Shields
“They sort of see Hillary Clinton as the status quo, more of the same, which is why the market is expected to rally should she become president. Donald Trump is more of the unknown. We could see an initial sell-off. Longer-term or midterm, their economic plans are very different.” ShouldDifferentPresidentTermPlansEconomicTrumpSellsClintonExpectedStatus QuoInitialsMidterms Author:Maria Bartiromo
“It looks like [Donald] Trump's plan has the potential to actually move the needle on economic growth because he wants to lower taxes and lower regulations. That would be very powerful in terms of creating jobs.” WantLooksWould BeJobsMovingGrowthTermPowerfulPlansEconomicTrumpTaxesCreatingRegulationEconomic GrowthVery PowerfulNeedlesCreating Jobs Author:Maria Bartiromo
“When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in.” WantGoalPresidentClassIssuesEconomicMiddleSecurityTrumpIncreaseMiddle ClassMiddle Class FamilyEconomic Security Author:Rudy Giuliani
“That is certainly the promise of [Donald Trump] campaign and the promise of his economic program.This economic program is really the pickup truck of economic programs. It's the Ford F-150 of economic programs. It's about manufacturing. It's about oil, fossil fuels. It's a deliberate, forceful reassertion of an image of American industrialism that we have inherited from the 20th century.” EconomicCenturyTrumpPromiseProgramOilCampaignsFuel20th CenturyFossilsTruckDeliberateManufacturingFossil FuelPickupsPickup Trucks Author:Judy Woodruff
“The economic base of that rural Oregon area used to be manufacturing and logging. And that went away and they feel nobody has been speaking to them and finally Donald Trump has spoken to them.” FeelsHas BeensUsedEconomicTrumpAreasUsed To BeManufacturingOregonLogging Author:Tucker Carlson
“Donald Trump said: I, Donald Trump, yes, I am going to take on the entire establishment. I'm going to take on the political establishment. I am going to take on the economic establishment. I'm going to take on the media establishment. And I think a lot of people responded positively to that message.” PeopleThinkingSaidPoliticalEconomicMediaTrumpMessagesEstablishmentPositively Author:Bernie Sanders