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It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. -- Anatoly Chubais
During the debate over NAFTA President Clinton said, 'I believe that NAFTA will create a million jobs in the first five years of its impact.' WRONG. According to the Economic Policy Institute, NAFTA has led to the loss of more than 680,000 U.S. jobs. I voted against NAFTA and other bad trade agreements and am fighting to stop the TPP. -- Bernie Sanders
People confuse economists and economic policy. -- Franco Modigliani
Education is the best economic policy there is. -- Tony Blair
Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy. -- Tim Scott
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. -- Bernie Sanders
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. -- Ben Bernanke
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. -- Mariano Rajoy
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy. -- Jack Kemp
When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate. -- Amity Shlaes
The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families. -- John Freeman
I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe. -- Lucas Papademos
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. -- William Greider
We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy. -- John W. Snow
In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world. -- Mark Zandi
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy. -- James Meade
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well. -- John Howard
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living. -- Peter Blair Henry
Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish. -- Joe Biden
The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. -- Marc Faber
And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates. -- Lucas Papademos
You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy. -- Michael Bloomberg
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues. -- James Meade
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity. -- Mitch Daniels
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy. -- Timothy Geithner
We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy. -- Dick Cheney
Good environmental policy is good economic policy. -- Bernie Sanders
Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth. -- Lou Jiwei
Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum. -- Manmohan Singh
We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date. -- Louis O. Kelso
Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics. -- James Cook
Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy. -- John Vaillant
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? -- Robert Solow
By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments. -- Joel Bakan
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone. -- Bill de Blasio
While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. -- Mo Ibrahim
I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket. -- Rebecca Mead
I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment. -- George Osborne
It's not that I disagreed with Bush's economic policy... I believed he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet... -- Bill Hicks
It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations. -- Charley Reese
The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments. -- Ludwig von Mises
We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation. -- Ted Cruz
It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges. -- Yoshihiko Noda
My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt. -- Joe Kyrillos
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. -- Paul Krugman
Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down. -- John Burnside
U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over. -- Gerhard Schroder
America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands. -- Samantha Power
The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes "? saving. -- Mark Thornton
The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives. -- Michel Chossudovsky
We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder. -- Ted Cruz
A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy. -- Jay Leno
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy... -- Alan Grayson
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline. -- John Hoeven
That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on. -- Judy Woodruff
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests. -- Russell Kirk
The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy. -- Joel Bakan
Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy. -- Robert Hormats
We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -- Tim Wirth
When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a short-term benefit, but may not be beneficial for the future. -- Li Keqiang
When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works. -- Carly Fiorina
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness. -- Ludwig von Mises

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