For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

If everyone in America started mailing empty boxes, we could boost productivity, profitability, and employment. Think like a politician.

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.

If we don’t learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government...

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don’t have both then you are in serious trouble.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile.

We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.

It’s always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it.

Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

That’s an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don’t see that, and you don’t get these things done, then you’re competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems.

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It’s an economic force, it’s a technical force. It’s a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to...

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who’ve spent more time in la-la land than in the ‘real world.’

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned...

Racial discrimination, South Africa’s economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I’m sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure...

I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw...

I’m one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn’t a millionaire. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate...

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

As you may know, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, or MCC, awards grants only to countries which rule justly, promote economic freedom, and invest in their people.

Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

India’s rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with ‘sustained economic growth.’

On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan’s political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti’s links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that...

How do you think we smart we realy are?If the whole world, economic, and everything around us, is based on one thing.If you push a green button, you’ll get banana.Now, you have only one button...

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if...

Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

I’m against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.