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

• One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand.

  

  Elizabeth Armstrong
  • Hand
  • Calm
  • Breaths

• In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Child
  • Innocent

• Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Experience

• It’s really interesting, I tailor the set to the place we’re playing and to the audience we’re playing to. There’s a certain formula of songs that have to be included that are expected, but I don’t go changing it up, I think if you give the audience the songs that they want and then give them something unexpected, it’s a great situation for the audience, but also a great situation for the band.

  

  Frankie Banali
  • Band
  • Audience
  • Songs

• 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