Economic Factors Quotes

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

The wiping out of crime is so largely an economic question because much crime arises from the fact that children grow up in undesirable surroundings and have parents that have been conditioned by the same type of environment.

What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.

Economic developments made modern democracy possible.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way.

Long-term economic growth depends mainly on nonmonetary factors such as population growth and workforce participation, the skills and aptitudes of our workforce, the tools at their disposal, and the pace of technological advance. Fiscal and regulatory policies can have important effects on these factors.

The surpluses of the [19]90s were the result of a growing economy. They were not the result of government policy.

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.

In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

Contract things are kind of tough to come up with, especially with both sides and kind of how the economics and all those things work.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

Economic growth is based partly on reality and partly on perception.

It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.

There was an analyst who came out the other day who's had a long track record of projecting presidential campaigns based on the economy and other kind of factors. And he said if [Donald] Trump stays about where he is right now, he'll win at about 51 or 52 percent. If Trump actually gets his act together in a disciplined way, he could win by as much as 66 percent.

People have looked at all sorts of effects of globalization and blamed trade. But it's lots of things.

Trade is not the cause for unemployment. In fact, the biggest drivers for unemployment are innovation and increased productivity. It has nothing to do with trade.

You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial - U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.

The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!

Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works.

Presidential elections are always pocketbook elections.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable