Mitt Romney Quotes

I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.

Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we understand why governments do it, so there is an onus on us to show there are other stories and to identify the institutional innovations you might need in order to arrive at this other place.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time we cure the disease and take care of the problems that are underlying our poor economy.

We will revive the emergency employment program established by former President Corazon Aquino. This will provide jobs for local communities and will help in the development of their and our economy.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

The economists are blind leaders of the blind; they know what is, they do not know what ought to be. They know how the present economic machinery works, they cannot give the drawings for a better machine. That will come from forces outside of professional economics — quite outside of it.

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.

Like all of my colleagues, I believe financial reform is necessary now.

I want to lead the Liberal Democrats so that we can build a liberal movement to stand up to those nationalist forces and stop Brexit, then transform our broken economy so that it is focused on the long-term and works for both people and our planet, tackling poverty and averting climate crisis.

We Need a RESET IN THE WAY THE ECONOMY GROWS Around the World

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.

China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.

We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.