“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it”
Ronald Reagan
“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”
Thomas Jefferson
“He who will not economize will have to agonize”
Confucius
“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I think it's both good ethics and good economics to scrap this notion that we can fight a war on terror and give rich folks like me a tax cut. It amounts to class warfare.”
Bill Clinton
“Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes”
Nikita Khrushchev
