Top 1200 American Economy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the wealthiest 5% of the population. So they got all the growth. 95% of the population didn't grow. If you can get a flat tax or other lower tax, as Trump is suggesting, then this richest 5% will be able to keep even more money. That means that the 95% will be even poorer than they were before, relative to the very top.

I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

When our economy grows, it is good for the world. When the world economy grows, it is good for the United States.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.

I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Yes, we become stronger when black and whites, Latino, Asian American, Native American, when all of us stand together.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in American flag

Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.

This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

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The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened to make sure that it keeps its hold on policy making. Well, I hope, and there seem to be some signs, that the military is taking a backseat, not really in the economy, but in some of the policy issues. If that can continue, which perhaps it will, this will be a positive development.

Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope.

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales.

Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

If we start thinking simply nationally, and we start having policies that try and restrict the benefits only within our borders, and try and implement protectionist measures as a consequence, this will not have the effect we need to have on the global economy. And that's ultimately the global economy that's pulling most of us down, particularly countries like Canada, that aren't the source of these current economic troubles.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

Most Europeans like the American manner of living. They've been exposed to the U.S. through American television shows.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Health care is in as bad a shape as it has ever been after eight years of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party running it and running the US economy. It's an absolute disaster. Other areas of the economy are a disaster. Economic growth? There isn't any. It's 1% per quarter, a 4% growth rate per year if we're lucky. There is no expansion. There is no productivity increase.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

Trump's first statement as president, his inaugural address, was an unprecedented assault on American democracy and American values.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

India is a 2 trillion dollar economy today. Can we not dream of an India with a 20 trillion dollar economy?

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today's headline in the newspapers is about America stepping up arms supplies to Pakistan.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.