Norman Lamont Quotes

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

Norman Lamont

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• Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Blue
  • Economy
  • Economic

• China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Economic
  • China

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Economic
  • Patriot
  • Barack

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Me
  • Economic
  • Program

• The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Economic

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • History
  • Economic
  • Through

• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Way
  • Economic
  • Own

• Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Support
  • Rest
  • Economic

• My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.

  

  Angela Davis
  • World
  • Age
  • Poverty

• Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • Society
  • Law
  • Justice

• Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Together
  • Society
  • Political

• On the international political landscape, there is better understanding of Pakistan's political economic and strategic issues. We aspire to promote peace and harmony with the region.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Political
  • Peace
  • Understanding

• I'm not expecting a big sell-off but I do think that if we don't have a move toward economic growth and policies that will promote economic growth and get us out of this 2 percent world - we really need to see 4 percent, 5 percent - to see jobs created, and if we don't see that longer-term, yeah the market will sell-off...[but] I do think things are getting better. It's just been very slow.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • World
  • Growth
  • Jobs

• President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Economic

• In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Rock
  • Economic
  • Stardom

• Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Lost
  • Health

• The economic base of a social formation, the infrastructure, includes the social relations of production the produce the material necessities of life. In doing so, it produces the superstructure, that is, ideology, belief, religion, and juridical controls.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Economic
  • Base
  • Social formation

• I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversation is. There's also this neurological fixation, the incessant wondering what the Internet's doing to our brain: "Does it make us stupid, does it make us distracted?" And then the other guys say, "No, it's making us smarter than ever, and better than ever, and more connected." And it's like, where is the economic and social context? Why is that rarely considered?

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Guy
  • Brain
  • Wonder

• Loneliness is not so much where you are, but instead is your state of mind.

  

  Nick Bilton
  • Mind
  • State
  • Loneliness

• Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Film
  • Hollywood
  • Terrorist

• The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

  

  Norman Lamont
  • Economic
  • Appearing
  • Shoots