Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need to remember the primary reason that incentives are given. It's not to make more money, necessarily. It's to make more oil, more gas, because production of fuel for our nation is essential to our economy and essential to our people.

We have overfed Europe with oil. Every economics textbook says that surplus supply lowers prices. But we can't reduce supply -- all our exports are oriented toward Europe.

Long-term interest rate levels reflect real economic growth, inflationary expectations and risk premium, and it may be possible to minimize the risk premium (component) through government policy.

Longer-term, I don't think there is going to be an economic impact as long as there isn't a longer period when energy prices are affected.

Looking out even further toward the end of the year, investors might grow optimistic about the end-of-year economic situation, as 2004's strong job growth could be seen as raising the prospects for holiday spending, hence giving the economy momentum as it enters 2005,

Ron Hill

Look (at) metals prices. As we rebuild inventories, as the whole industry economy starts to gear up, these guys (Freeport does) well. As the global economy starts to gears up, they also do well because they have a significant portion of sales overseas,

Looking ahead, 2006 and 2007 should be strong on the economic side, and the housing market should be, too.

Aldo Leopold

Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about

Marc is running on the fact that he's a job provider and that he's going to provide economic development. Obviously this is something he'll have to explain.

Jeb Hensarling

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

I tend to think of it as a macro-economic factor. The economy is growing well, there is really no inflation and the labor market has been tight everywhere, so you start to see some things show up, like the GM labor dispute. Unions get more aggressive.

I still have my problems with the economy and how strong it's doing,

Joe Robinson

I think people do have to remember our goal is economic development, and to me, that says a lot. These people make things happen. They don't sit back and wait.

Leila Janah

I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

I think overall it's quite a good legacy and the performance of the economy has been quite good.

William Ramsay

I think Russia has made a serious mistake. It has demonstrated its willingness to use its gas as a political and economic tool.

Mike Farrell

I think most participants are leery of the economy. Maybe the economy will get better, but maybe it's not as good as we think it is.

We do not condone hostility toward these people. We know they're economic refugees.

Without a mandate, shippers will not take on the economic burden.

Lee Loong

We have to remake Singapore. Our economy, our education, our mind-set, our city. It must be a totally different Singapore. Because if its the same Singapore today, we're dead,

We're a generation away from those guys, and we have a different economic scale to live up to. Our generation is lucky if we have jobs that we like and people that we can relate to.

We estimate the economic impact at $3 million.

We elected out of economy and some other reasons.

We'd talk to the villagers and try to find out who was an insurgent and find their cache. In one site, we found over 11 tons of explosives. They would sell it to the insurgents. You're not only fighting the insurgency; you're fighting an economy that's poor.

Mark Zandi

We don't get away scot-free, but the underlying economy remains tough and sturdy.

We don't get all the headlines up here, but it's a good economy.

We have some hint that the tax rebate program just might be able to pull the economy out of its funk,

Jeff Raikes

We do think this is a different economy than we saw two to three years ago.

Douglas Merrill

We had interaction with so many people: governor's office, mayors, economic development councils. We even got a letter from a mother.

I think ordinary Iraqis have picked up on the sense that the economy looks better.

It doesn't surprise me. We all know the House is going to vote to impeach the President. The fact is that economic times here in the United States are still quite good.

It doesn't give support to a robust expansion, ... Expansion is coming, just not the garden-variety explosive economic expansion.

Alejandro Toledo

It doesn't make sense that Wall Street applauds us because we do things well at the macro level. The objective is that that healthy economic growth is reflected in the reduction of extreme poverty,