economics Quotes

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.