Quotes about Economy

That we live now in an economy that is not sustainable is not the fault only of a few mongers of power and heavy equipment. We all are implicated. We all, in the course of our daily economic life, consent to it, whether or not we approve of it. This is because of the increasing abstraction and unconsciousness of our connection to our economic sources in the land, the land-communities, and the land-use economies.

when state and national governments begin to act in effect as agents of the global economy, selling their people for low wages and their people's products for low prices, then the rights and liberties of citizenship must necessarily shrink.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages.

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

Strive for minimum waste, minimum profit, maximum distribution.

The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.

Your money should be at work at all times.

Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country.