Quotes of: American-economy Keyword

Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had been the primary economic stimulant and to increase it had been the goal of hundreds of interes...

The New Penguin History of The World

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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

Jack Valenti

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

Richard Neal

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, C...

Amy Chua

With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

God was never created the economy. Men found it after banished from Eden.

Master of Stupidity

Inflation creates bubble and burst. That develops world economy, and will destroy it too.

Master of Stupidity

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.

Thomas Frank

It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible

Osama bin Laden

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Park Geun-hye

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

Pauline Marois

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

Richard Attias

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

Rachel Cusk

Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.

Richard Engel

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Robert Kiyosaki

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

Solomon Ortiz

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.

Scott Peters

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

Susan Rice

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

Tim Bishop

To get anything done, Obama has to be seen as having winning economy - which isn't easy.

Tyler Cowen