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"Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation."
"You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological."
"You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong."
"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that."
"You can't have the family farm without the family."
"Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business."
"You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control."
"It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature's capital"
"Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life."
"If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute."
"The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force."
"There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore."
"I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom."
"We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country."
"Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing."
"Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about."
"The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward."
"When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."
"For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true."
"Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders."
