Martin O'Malley Quotes

This country will not support a flat-liner [no economic growth] for President.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation.

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

We need to show that Europe is investing in growth and not only in rigor and austerity.

One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets.

Not once during Obama's tenure did the country achieve an annual 3 percent rate of economic growth.

I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.

If you look at the policies that were implemented over the past four years post 2015, these are not really growth oriented policies.

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.

I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.