Quotes of: World-economy Keyword

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

Steve Forbes

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

Hans Rosling

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

Richard Engel

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

Eric Alterman

I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.

Andrew Lansley

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nat...

Brian Behlendorf

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

Vladimir Putin

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

William J. Clinton

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

Jeremy Grantham

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

Lasse Hallstrom

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Edmund Burke

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Jonathan Sacks

A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.

Bill Owens

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.

Bo Bennett

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The New Economy is one where small business has the advantage. What is it about small business that is unique? Today’s small businesses are lean, smart, complex – eternally entrepreneurial – not just small versions of big business. These entrep...

Thriving in the New Economy

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

Kalle Lasn

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

Ross Perot

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Jaron Lanier

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Alistair Darling