Tony Blair Quotes

We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.

Tony Blair

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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

• 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

• 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

• A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Said
  • Economy
  • Bank

• 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

• 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

• China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Energy
  • Easy
  • Economy

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

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Power
  • Economy
  • Will

• Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Today
  • Economy
  • Tomorrow

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

  

  Larry Elder
  • Government
  • Better
  • Economy

• 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.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• 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.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Time
  • School
  • Education

• For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Die
  • Economy
  • Collapse

• The remarkable thing about the U.S. is that for so long we were so big, and we were not heavily engaged. We have to worry about global financial crises affecting our economy.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Long
  • Worry
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Sea
  • Economy

• Whatever backlash I was going to get, whatever consequence there was for stating my opinion, I was OK with. Because I look at my son's eyes, I look at the eyes of my daughter, and I would be a bad dad if my No. 1 goal wasn't always to put them in the best situation as possible.

  

  Andrew Hawkins
  • Eyes
  • Son
  • Consequence

• It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Sky
  • Changes
  • Mystery

• In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen.

  

  David Boaz
  • People
  • Mean
  • Liberty

• We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Economy
  • Consequence
  • Consumption