Quotes about Economy

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.