Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Kenneth Galbraith

In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.

Paul Krugman

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Jimmy Carter

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Brian Sandoval

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

David Caruso

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

Annie Lennox

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.

Nick Hanauer

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Martha Quinn

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment.

Franklin Raines

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Samuel Johnson

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

John Adams

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Prudentius

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

Leonardo da Vinci

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

Jeb Bush

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

David Andrews

The economics were not as strong as obviously the Robinsons would've liked.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Bjorn Hanson

The economics are extremely compelling. It is good for every reason we can think of.

Adam Goodman

The economics are evolving in the movie business. Everybody has to recognize that.

Nouriel Roubini

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

Robert Mason

Economics should always be paramount over tax considerations. Don't let the tax tail wag the investment dog.