Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

Nicolas Sobczak

In the last two months, the ups and down in the consumer spending numbers have been mostly driven by swings in the textile and leather sector.

E. Hicks

In enterprises, this is starting to happen now, but in consumer side I would not expect a large uptake at least for a year.

Ian Shepherdson

If real spending rises at this pace in February and March, consumer spending will rise just 2.3 percent for the quarter, the softest since Q2 1997,

Joshua Shapiro

The Fed isn't going to get exited about inflation in the labor market. At this stage they are focusing on core inflation at the consumer level and growth. Certainly, the news lately on the growth side has been quite good.

Greg Zandlo

Going into debt is never easy and, in your case, going deeper into debt is a necessary evil.

Samuel Johnson

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Phil Angelides

California's level of debt is far greater than when the governor took office 23 months ago. And the state is facing deficits as far as the eye can see,

H. Hunt

In Japan, for example, the debt deflation started in 1990 and price deflation started in 1992 or 1993. That's what we're in for right now.

Stephen Green

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) was looking for domestic debt at year-end 2005 to be worth 19.6 percent of GDP. That can now be revised down to about 16 percent.

Bill Warlick

The next big obstacle would be financing the exit. Presumably they would be looking for debt financing and some equity financing.

Joseph Stiglitz

The US economy has lots of vulnerabilities in debts and deficits.

Samuel Rutherford

Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!

Paul Ryan

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

John Niven

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Walter Scott

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

James Woolsey

a lot harder to keep track of than the dragon ever was.

Virgil

Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Jason Giambi

It's pretty pathetic to drag my father into it. Give me a break.

O. J. Simpson

Then (she was) dragged into a boy's restroom by a 15-year-old male student and allegedly was sexually assaulted,

Greg Valliere

It's very hard to spin this story positively. My fear is this could drag on for months and months and months.

Wayne Beavis

It will take another week to unfold. I don't want to drag it out but there's things to consider. There's family issues, there's children.

Mike Reed

They'll have to drag me out by my feet.

Ethan Harris

You've had obviously a rise in gasoline prices, which is the visible price in the economy, ... There's (also) a tendency of the public to look at the unemployment rate that actually rose in March, while Wall Street looks at payrolls (which showed a large jump in the number of people working.)

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Bill Richardson

We do think prices will go up a little bit, but in the end we do think gasoline prices will stabilize,

Jeff Goodell

Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Mitsushige Akino

Higher oil prices and a strengthening yen accelerated selling.

Ben Shapiro

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

Albert J. Nock

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Jiang Baoguo

The restaurant name means soaring higher and higher.

Steve Andrews

This is a very mainstream issue that should be raised to a higher profile.

Richard Franulovich

It's not a big surprise. A lot of the things we were looking at such as lower oil prices and higher Boeing deliveries have all conspired to make it a better number.

Chris Mennis

It's probably going to go higher from here.

Will Rogers

Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up.

Richard Yamarone

Inflation pressures are rising, but at a subdued pace.

Glenn Hubbard

Inflation pressures are quite modest in the United States. I don't think inflation will be a problem this year, or next year, even with the rate cuts.

Robert Parry

It's risky just to sit back and wait for an upward trend in inflation to show up before we do something,

Anirvan Banerji

There will be a time when inflation will turn around.

Hiroshi Arano

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.

Bruce Alston

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Glenn Miller

There's no question that inflation has occurred, and $75 million is not the same today as it was then. That said, from where we sit, what's past is past.

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Ken Budd

These are not the prices we voted on.

Andrew Harrington

Prices have been rarely, if ever, this high. Now is the time to make hay.

Jim Reese

The prices are up because no one has wheat.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

Paul Krugman

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Chinua Achebe

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Ed Balls

The national deficit is not rising.

Benjamin Banneker

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

H. P. Lovecraft

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.