Quotes of: Economic-life Keyword

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Barry McCaffrey

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Bill McKibben

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Garet Garrett

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Georg Simmel

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

Harold H. Greene

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

Jose Mujica

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

Joel C. Rosenberg

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

James Surowiecki

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

David Blunkett

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

David Frum

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

David Korten

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

Dave Matthews

Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.

John Gates

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

Jonathan Haidt

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Jesse Jackson

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

John Maynard Keynes

Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.

Chellie Pingree

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Douglas Horton

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Kofi Annan

High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.

Anthony Albanese

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

Barry Ritholtz