“This is capitalism. You reap what you sow.”— Kelsey Krasnigor, Mark Levin, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, Nick Kroll, Andrew Glouberman, John Mulaney, imdb.com
“78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. 57% can’t afford unexpected $500 bill. Our economy is not working for more and more Americans. And now I'm running for President to help change that and make us not the underdogs in our own land anymore.”— Andrew Yang, 2020poolreports.substack.com
“It’s a funny thing: the Republicans are known for business, and yet the economy always seems to tank under the Republicans.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“This is a defining moment of truth for this country and for every single one of us. The challenges that we face right now, the interconnected crises in our economy, our democracy and our climate have never been greater.”— Beto O'Rourke, npr.org
“When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the en…”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com
“Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com
“The economy stinks, bees are dying, and movies are pretty much all sequels now.”— David Quandt, Schmidt, Max Greenfield, imdb.com
“You see, the hard reality is how much money we accumulate in life is not a function of who's president or the economy or bubbles bursting or bad breaks or bosses.”— Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, Mark Williams, Marty Byrde, Jason Bateman, imdb.com
“I'll tell you what happened, son! See, there's a bunch of idiots out there who weren't happy with what they had! They wanted a bigger house and materialistic things that they didn't even need. People with no money who got loans to buy frivolous things they had no business buying. And these assholes…”— Trey Parker, Randy Marsh, Trey Parker, imdb.com
“You know, it's like my econ professor at Harvard used to say to me: never examine the motives of the guys writing your checks.”— Matthew Carnahan, Doug Guggenheim, Josh Lawson, imdb.com
“Plus-size women drive our economy with their purchases of Garfield books and Haagen-Dazs.”— Dan Vebber, Hayley Smith (voice), Rachael MacFarlane, imdb.com
“I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent.”— Eddie Vedder, avclub.com
“We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, b…”— Deng Xiaoping, en.wikiquote.org
“A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.”— Deng Xiaoping, en.wikiquote.org
“I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old…”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”— Benjamin Harrison, presidential-power.org
“Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain.”— Diego Rivera, goodreads.com
“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”— Karl Marx , amazon.com