Economic Reforms Quotes

• There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Leader, Political

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.36, Orbis Books

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• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Responsibility, Government, Issues

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

  Kevin Carson

  Change, Order, Law

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• I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.

  Milton Friedman

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and other big government Republicans hijacked the conservative cause". Book by Richard A Viguerie, p. 46, 2006.

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• I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society, political system, an open economy, economic system - this has widespread support.

  Manmohan Singh

  Lying, Moving, Thinking

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• If the US Government was a family—they would be making $58,000 a year, spending $75,000 a year, & are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget & debt, reduced to a level that we can understand.

  Dave Ramsey

  Money, Cutting, Government

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• By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Power, Government

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.121, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In Burma, we need to find out what we have to do in order to keep the democratization process on track. Economic reforms have to be taken one by one. You see it's not just speed that's important, it's sequencing as well. You've got to get the speed right; you have to get the sequencing right.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Taken, Order, Track

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which brings real heft to Europe's influence on the world stage which plays by the rules and which is a force for liberal economic reform would be a very different kind of European Union.

  David Cameron

  Country, Real, Play

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Challenges, Important

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Military, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.

  Donald Evans

  Views, Political, Important

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• Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

  John Mica

  Reform, Joining, Economic

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• [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

  Thomas Frank

  Prayer, War, School

  "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.

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• Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.

  Wesley Clark

  Technology, Research And Development, Organization

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• There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.

  Tony Abbott

  Two, Important, Get Better

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Political, Reform, Negative

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

  Peter Mandelson

  Reform, Needs, Economic

  "Full text: Peter Mandelson's speech on a new consensus for Europe", www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2005.

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• So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Years, October, Pushing

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• The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.

  Peter Costello

  Australia, People, Reform

  "The World Today" with Chris Uhlmann, ministers.treasury.gov.au. August 16, 2007.

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