Top 1200 American Economy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Be aware that the economy is not meant to control us ... we are meant to control the economy.

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian.

Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the hallmark of capitalism and its Achilles heel, for no business can permanently maintain its prices much above its costs. There is only one way in which profits can be perpetuated; a business-or an entire economy-must grow.

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

There is a profound injustice at the heart of the American economy. You look at the media and realize that these corporate-run commercial entities are failing to give Americans the information they need to make informed choices. You look at the food we're eating and the obesity epidemic and realize there is something fundamentally wrong about our nutritional habits. So across the board there is something fundamentally unjust about every aspect of our personal lives.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.

We couldn't get enough of American rock 'n' roll. We'd hear it when we played American air bases in the U.K.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.

Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

On criminal justice reform: Joe Biden couldn't do it, but President Trump did. On the economy: Joe Biden couldn't do it, but President Trump did build an economy that worked for everyone, especially minorities, and he will do it again.

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.

You know, the elites always want to shame the poor - right? - and everyone else. I mean, the fact is, this economy is based on 70 percent of the people driving consumer demand. If people do not purchase goods and services, this economy will grind to recession. And that is why, if you are going to do a tax cut, it ought to really be aimed at low-income and middle-income people.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

As more and more money is coming into the formal economy, one can look at more attractive tax rates and lower tax slabs. Even if half the people who were in the informal sector move in to the formal economy and more taxes get collected, more money can be spent on the welfare.

The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus.

I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within the caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

My administration will follow two simple rules. Buy American and hire American.

We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.

NWA was all-American; Wu-Tang was all-American. It was just a part of America you may not have seen at the time.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

I always wanted to be the first true Latino to break the American barrier, to be on the American charts.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

The smartphone created a huge economy, the cloud created a huge economy.

Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it's fast becoming an American reality.