Paul Krugman Quotes

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Political
  • Better
  • Economy

• Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Important
  • Women
  • Economy

• We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Economy

• The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Small
  • Growth

• 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.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Strong
  • Economy
  • Plan

• 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.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Economy
  • China
  • Right Track

• 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.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • World
  • Economy
  • Legal

• Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Kind
  • Gay
  • Economy

• We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Confidence
  • Need
  • Economy

• I have either run private equity funded companies or been a partner in a private equity fund since 1982. I've had a front row view of the vital role private equity continues to play in building and keeping American businesses competitive in the global economy.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • American
  • Economy
  • Building

• Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Me
  • Economy
  • Starting

• 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.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Alone
  • Study

• 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.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Up
  • Time
  • Risk

• We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Financial
  • Working
  • Economy

• Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Power
  • Economy
  • Will

• When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Escape

• 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.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Economy
  • Recovery
  • Taxes

• Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Government
  • Better
  • Economy

• Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Country
  • Science
  • Control

• Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Play
  • Never
  • Seems

• If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss
  • Happy People

• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Competition
  • Environmental

• The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.

  

  F. Enzio Busche
  • Love
  • Person
  • Most

• Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Economy
  • Societies
  • Political Action