Quotes about Economy

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.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing