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Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. -- Paul Ryan
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. -- Leon Kass
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. -- Christopher Dodd
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. -- Robert Reich
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. -- Noam Chomsky
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. -- Al Gore
It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth. -- Ari Fleischer
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth. -- Bob Schaffer
Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are. -- Phil Gramm
I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth. -- Jeb Bush
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. -- Paul Samuelson
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. -- Robert Foster Bennett
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring. -- Edith Widder
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. -- Ronald Reagan
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously. -- Kailash Satyarthi
The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth. -- Todd Tiahrt
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. -- Derek Bok
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity. -- Henry Paulson
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference. -- Pankaj Mishra
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. -- George W. Bush
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. -- John F. Kennedy
This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit. -- Nigel Farage
The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance. -- Ban Ki-moon
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. -- Dixie Lee Ray
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. -- Hannah Arendt
If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably. -- Tony Blair
Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that number down - don't tell me, tell the other idiots! -- Bernard Chidzero
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. -- E. O. Wilson
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. -- Larry Page
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically. -- Jeb Bush
If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first. -- Chris Christie
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. -- Ban Ki-moon
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education. -- Tom Vilsack
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support. -- Ban Ki-moon
In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government. -- Paul Ryan
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' -- Ramez Naam
You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.' -- Rand Paul
Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. -- Jesse Jackson
If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending. -- Robert Higgs
But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? -- Terry Savage
One cannot have economic growth without security. -- John Bruton
My definition of economic development is economic growth. -- Mark Noble
Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oil is a very important component of economic growth. -- Maria Bartiromo
For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport. -- Paul Krugman
If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. -- Tony Abbott
Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out. -- Jack Kemp
Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty. -- Nicholas Bloom
Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces. -- Dave Heineman
Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth. -- Lou Jiwei
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. -- Thomas Perez
Economic growth which strips out the planet's ecosystems is not sustainable -- Helen Clark
There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth. -- Sunday Adelaja
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical -- Amartya Sen
Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth. -- Rush Limbaugh
Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet -- Phil Harding
will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit. -- Jim Ramstad
We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth. -- Paul Ryan
I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy. -- Paul Ryan
Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin. -- Angela Merkel
We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth. -- Mike Farrell
Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with. -- Richard Heinberg
The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth. -- Tim Kaine
Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth. -- Barry Ritholtz
The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices. -- Mark Skousen
We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both -- Paul Polman
The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth. -- Robert Kuttner
Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth. -- Dave Reichert
It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. -- Nigel Farage
Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth. -- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. -- Alan Greenspan
Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses. -- Phil Bredesen
In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.' -- Bill Gross
When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably. -- Kevin McCarthy
We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth. -- Guo Guangchang
Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral. -- Lou Jiwei
Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector. -- Max Levchin
... the best way to help the poor is to promote economic growth and job creation -- Myron Magnet
Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth. -- Cory Booker
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business. -- Jack Kemp
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support -- Paul A. Samuelson
Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth. -- Joe Craft
Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology. -- Susan Hockfield
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society. -- Tabare Vazquez
Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress. -- Mac Thornberry
If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant. -- Zhou Shengxian
There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades. -- Tom Vilsack
The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth. -- Robert Reich
Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development -- Tony Juniper
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. -- John Podhoretz
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Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level -- Miguel Reynolds Brandao
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care -- Gordon Brown
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. -- Tim Jackson
Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor. -- Dalai Lama
You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment. -- James Surowiecki
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. -- Herman Daly
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. -- Herman Daly
The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency. -- Gary Cohn
The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades. -- Richard Attias
Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? -- Simon Kuznets
We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist -- Jim Yong Kim
Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress. -- Sue Kelly
What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world. -- Peter Mandelson
Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive. -- Paul Gilding
The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.' -- Tim Jackson
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. -- Barry Commoner
My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation. -- Joyce Banda
We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda. -- Karen Mills
It doesn't matter if it's a Republican or a Democrat. If you do the right policies, you get economic growth. -- Nancy Pfotenhauer
Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key. -- Goodluck Jonathan
Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth. -- Laurent Lamothe
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth â?? these are one and the same fight. -- Ban Ki-moon
Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda. -- Paul Kagame
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. -- Noam Chomsky

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