Simon Kuznets Quotes

The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

Simon Kuznets

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• Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Up
  • Action
  • Animal

• I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

  

  Kate Upton
  • American
  • Horse
  • Nation

• The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Government
  • Nation

• After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Years
  • System
  • Welfare

• We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Live
  • Welfare

• This nation loves singing and loves acting.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Nation

• Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Right
  • Nation
  • Herself

• I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Responsibility
  • Same
  • Nation

• We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Identity
  • Nation
  • Cards

• To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • People
  • Clothes
  • Nation

• I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Care
  • Nation
  • Injunction

• Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Control
  • Nation
  • Wreck

• When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • United States
  • Citizens
  • Welfare

• Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Life
  • Men
  • Happy

• Let us trust that all Mexicans, taught by the prolonged and painful experience of the calamities of war, will cooperate in the future for the wellbeing and the prosperity of the nation, which can only be obtained through an undoubted respect for the law and an obedience to the authorities elected by the people.

  

  Benito Juarez
  • People
  • Experience
  • War

• You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Dog
  • Nation
  • Injustice

• Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Up
  • Real
  • Girl

• We know all about what they have done and the amount of success they have been able to achieve. It is truly one of the top programs in the nation. They flew someone in on a private plane to watch us play Mineral Area. That should tell you they have a big-time program.

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Success
  • Nation
  • Amount

• A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Peace
  • Trust
  • Security

• To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Nation
  • Foolish
  • Reform

• I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together.

  

  Hal Moore
  • God
  • Dead
  • Battle

• When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Wonder

• I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Support
  • Tax
  • Middle-class

• The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.

  

  Simon Kuznets
  • Nation
  • Welfare
  • Income