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Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that has created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and rewarded the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon of science, and technology, and discovery. But the American economy has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle - that America prospers when all Americans can prosper. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest.

- Barack Obama

source: "The Day the Momentum Changed: And What Obama Needs to Do in the Debates to Keep It" by Drew Westen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2008.

topic: Dream, Technology, Invisible Hand, Engines, American Economy

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We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

- John W. Snow

source: "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

topic: Priorities, Economic, Economy, Adaptive, American Economy

Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. ... The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Moving, Government, Views, Income Tax, Strong Economy

No, I’ve always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it’s demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.

- Dick Cheney

source: "My Interview with Dick Cheney". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

topic: Blow, Thinking, Years, American Economy

America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

- Martin Amis

source: "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

topic: America, World, Matter, Center Of The World, American Economy

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

- Bill Gates

topic: Good Citizen, American Economy

The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.

- Bruce Babbitt

source: "Democrat Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Steven Pearlstein, www.inc.com. August 1, 1987.

topic: Mean, Reality, Government, American Economy

The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Believe, Mean, Years, American Economy, Buying Stocks

The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies decide they can make money by rent-seeking, by getting money from government rather than earning it the old-fashioned way.

- David Brooks

source: "Week In Politics: Trump Begins 'Thank You' Tour In Indiana". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, apr.org. December 2, 2016.

topic: Government, Earning It, Way, American Economy

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

- Rodrigo Rato

topic: Believe, Progressive, Economy, American Economy

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality, [and] they're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

- Robert J. Gordon

source: "The Death of Innovation, the End of Growth". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

topic: Powerful, Educational, Cutting, American Economy

Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully ... Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification. Maintaining the safety of America's food supply is an important goal, but it is unclear why immigrants in this sector should achieve special status over skilled workers in industries equally important to the American economy.

- Mike Lee

source: "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

topic: America, Safety, Goal, American Economy, Skilled Workers

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

- Frans de Waal

topic: Interesting, Chinese, Together, Economy Today, American Economy

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

- Fareed Zakaria

topic: Technology, Envy, Immigration, Interstate, American Economy

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

- Peter Welch

source: "Arena Profile: Rep. Peter Welch". Interview with Erika Lovley, www.politico.com. July 18, 2011.

topic: Gun, Hair, Pay, American Economy

I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

source: Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

topic: Keys, Race, Dollars, Stoke, American Economy

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

- Eva Longoria

topic: Jobs, Issues, Immigration, American Economy

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

- Rodrigo Rato

topic: Needs, World, Economy, American Economy

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

- Jon Meacham

topic: Years, Long, Track, American Economy

The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.

- Lou Dobbs

topic: Country, Men, Looks, Outsourcing, Working Man

Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

- Richard J. Foster

topic: Children, Air, Average, Overconsumption, Overpopulation

The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay...

- Ed Rollins

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Country, Reform, Done, American Economy, Tax Reform

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

- Ronald Reagan

source: United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

topic: Strong, Allies, Essentials, American Economy

Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

- Paul Ormerod

source: "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

topic: Cities, United States, Example, American Economy

We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.

- Kenneth C. Griffin

source: "Citadel Boss Won't Be Hedging On Day Job". Chicago Tribune, March 2006.

topic: Strong, Get Better, Flow, American Economy

There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.

- Russell B. Long

topic: Political, Choices, Three, American Economy

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

- Michelle Rhee

topic: Running, Country, Thinking, American Economy

The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

- Tim Kaine

topic: Innovation, World, Energy, American Economy

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

- Gordon Gee

source: "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

topic: College, Impact, Ideas, American Economy

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: Government, Names, Safety, Public Safety, American Economy

I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Will Obama’s Exploitation of Newtown Families Force GOP to Cave on Gun Control?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 12, 2013.

topic: Effort, Unemployment, Care, American Economy

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

- James P. Hoffa

topic: Country, Unions, Trends, Standards Of Living, Robust

Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the American economy since, ought to have eased her worries about failing to climb as high as she believed she deserved. But the money was his, not theirs. The unspoken power this gave him kept her from asking: Why don't you stay home?

- Amy Waldman

source: The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

topic: Home, Worry, Asking, American Economy, Scions

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

- Nate Silver

topic: People, Acting, Degrees, Chaos Theory, American Economy

Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

- Joyce Appleby

topic: Details, Dozen, Coherence, Sophistication, American Economy

Anything that drags down the American economy drags the Canadian economy down with it.

- John Ibbitson

source: "International observers express fear, optimism on shutdown" by Alex Hopkins, www.washingtontimes.com. October 1, 2013.

topic: Economy, Drag, American Economy

Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly and pay America's bills, or they can act irresponsibly and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy

- Barack Obama

topic: Two, America, Choices, Economic Crisis, American Economy

When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

- Elliott Abrams

topic: Talking, White, House, Liaison, American Economy

The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

- Jay Carney

topic: Thinking, Order, People, Debt Ceiling, American Economy

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Average, Years, Office, American Economy

Ronald Reagan reignited the American economy, rebuilt the Military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and defeated Soviet Communism. I will do the same thing.

- Ted Cruz

source: The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

topic: Military, Unions, Communism, Soviet, American Economy

Financial experts are saying we are entering a new chapter in the American economy. I believe it's Chapter 11.

- Jay Leno

topic: Believe, Experts, Entering, American Economy

To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

- Jay Leno

topic: Your Side, Ideas, Giving, American Economy

You know, now that I come to think of it, the blizzard may be the best thing to happen to the American economy in 12 months.

- Marco Rubio

source: Marco Rubio's keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

topic: Thinking, May, Months, Blizzard, American Economy

So there's that change of general consciousness, and then there's this boom after the war, this expansion into the West. It was like the 1950s. The American economy was pumping at top speed. The kinds of people who would move into these communities and organize their lives around a utopian dream now had dreams about the West.

- Christine Jennings

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Dream, War, Moving, American Economy

From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the wealthiest 5% of the population. So they got all the growth. 95% of the population didn't grow. If you can get a flat tax or other lower tax, as Trump is suggesting, then this richest 5% will be able to keep even more money. That means that the 95% will be even poorer than they were before, relative to the very top.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Mean, Growth, Population, Flat Tax, American Economy

Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

- Newt Gingrich

source: Source: www.spiegel.de