Peter Orszag Quotes
The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.
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Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
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We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
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Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
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We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.
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A 2014 study commissioned by Facebook and done by Deloitte suggests that Facebook alone contributes almost $150 billion directly to the global economy, and when you add the peripherals, it nears $227 billion.
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Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
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Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.
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Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
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There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.
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I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has nothing to offer them. Suppose they do get a high school diploma that is meaningful. What kind of job is awaiting them. The jobs that used to be available to working class people are not there as a result of the de-industrialization of this economy.
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People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.
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It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
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For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.
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The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.
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The most nervous-making point at the moment is Brazil, ... The international economy rallied around Brazil and hopes very much the Brazilians will be able to fulfill their part of the bargain with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and keep their economy from going under.
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The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
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It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.
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It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.
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I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.
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You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
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It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.
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The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.
