Quotes of: Economic Keyword

I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

Jim Webb

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.

Muhammad Yunus

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

Vaclav Klaus

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household inc...

Andrea Jung

In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly half a century, is out of touch of what women and families are going through in California.

Elizabeth Emken

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

Jenny Shipley

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

Subcomandante Marcos

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

Alveda King

Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.

Bob Barr

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.

Christo

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

James F. Byrnes

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

James Meade

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is: Nothing. And what do I miss by not knowing Shakespeare? Unless I get my understanding from another source, I simply miss my life. Shall we tel...

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must...

Eric J. Hobsbawm

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics