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Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. -- Ellen Tauscher
Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy. -- John Baldacci
Obamacare is going to destroy our economy and destroy our freedom. -- Paul Broun
The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools. -- Bob Riley
Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives. -- Donald L. Carcieri
Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward. -- Bill Shuster
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. -- Mitch Albom
Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers. -- Ibrahim Rugova
Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create. -- Doc Hastings
We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy. -- Franklin Raines
An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed. -- Chris Gabrieli
We are currently gradually stabilizing our economy. -- Vladimir Putin
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. -- Tom Vilsack
Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy. -- John H. Tobe
Let's protect and empower workers who actually drive our economy. -- Hillary Clinton
If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy. -- Barack Obama
The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools -- Bob Riley
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy. -- Karen Hughes
Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy. -- George W. Bush
Obama is a human wrecking ball single-handedly destroying our economy and bankrupting the nation. -- David Limbaugh
My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy -- John Warren Kindt
Our economy, I think, is still -- the fundamentals of our economy are strong. -- John McCain
People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy. -- Hilda Solis
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls. -- Charles H. Percy
What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy. -- George Lois
Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth. -- Hillary Clinton
It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline. -- Barack Obama
By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong. -- Dennis Hastert
I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he's not trying to keep our economy together. -- Channing Tatum
There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy. -- Robert Brady
To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men! -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy. -- Dr. Seuss
We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece. -- Mitch McConnell
Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it. -- Gerhard Schroder
A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster. -- Janeane Garofalo
There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. -- Hillary Clinton
After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. -- Barack Obama
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong. -- Dennis Hastert
The more we can get Washington out of the way, the stronger our economy and our country will be. -- Josh Mandel
Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability. -- Jack Reed
Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies. -- Hillary Clinton
We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification. -- Sharron Angle
Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month. -- Bob Beauprez
We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy. -- Marsha Blackburn
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The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system. -- Daniel Pauly
For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change. -- Barack Obama
The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer. -- Marco Rubio
The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist. -- Christopher Martenson
This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it. -- Jim Nussle
I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank. -- John McCain
Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act. -- Eliot Spitzer
The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana. -- Ted Cruz
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education. -- Bill Richardson
We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future. -- William J. Clinton
We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do. -- George W. Bush
Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed. -- Jeff Merkley
A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries. -- Scott Peters
Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track. -- Mitt Romney
Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated. -- Michele Bachmann
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. -- Wendell Berry
The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known, -- Elaine Chao
A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy. -- Anna Eshoo
If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed. -- Andrew Weil
Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy. -- Tammy Baldwin
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. -- Robert W. Sarnoff
I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track. -- Bob McDonnell
Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels. -- Jerry Brown
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually? -- Dan Quayle
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country. -- Marco Rubio
Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer. -- Tom Rath
Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy. -- Annabel Park
We have to make our economy work for everyone - not just those at the top - protecting our country and protecting our planet. -- Hillary Clinton
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level. -- Marcy Kaptur
Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income. -- John W. Snow
It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy. -- David Cameron
What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. -- Ann McLane Kuster
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways. -- John F. Kennedy
We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it. -- Heidi Heitkamp
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Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals. -- Julia Gillard
After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track. -- Thomas G. Stemberg
Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us. -- Jerzy Kosinski
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy. -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life. -- Alveda King
We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent. -- Mitt Romney
I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector. -- John F. Kerry
We've clearly seen that Tea Party Republicans are willing to take our economy hostage just to score political points, but I'm not willing to do that. -- Martin Heinrich
Denmark is a small nation of five million people, but our economy is completely dependent on our commercial fleet. Every family has some connection to it. -- Tobias Lindholm
Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community. -- Charles Koch
No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels. -- George W. Bush
We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do. -- Marsha Blackburn
The American people know that our economy is struggling right now, partly because of the debt that is impacting American families, hardworking taxpayers all across this country. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well. -- Dick Cheney
If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand. -- John Prendergast
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. -- Stockwell Day
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment. -- Jim Hightower
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect! -- Dick Morris
Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry. -- Douglas Rushkoff
This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs. -- Jodi Rell
When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy. -- Ann Wagner
If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker. -- Rick Perry
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work. -- Jerry Brown
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If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point. -- Van Jones
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of communications technology on society and our economy. -- Julius Genachowski
Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society. -- Chris Gabrieli
I`m going to work night and day to make sure that Americans get the tax relief that they need and deserve, and that our economy needs and deserves. -- Jay Carney
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
Crack the science of loyalty at scale for local business, and that becomes something that can add a huge amount of value to an important sector of our economy. -- Seth Priebatsch
Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad. -- Hjalmar Schacht
Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth. -- Marco Rubio
If you like Texas and you like our economy, I helped create all that and all those jobs and you will love it when David Dewhurst goes to Washington. -- David Dewhurst

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