Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

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

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Would you rather have us be a second rate nation or should we spend a little money?

With inflation, debts and bills fly to the sky

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

In only 37 years, our population will grow by a number equivalent to all the people in the world at the beginning of World War II.

Demography, not democracy, will be the most critical factor for security and growth in the 21st century. Booming populations are a drag on developing countries, and low fertility rates are sapping growth in developed societies.

People forget how difficult it is to stop inflation or get it under control… I worry about it all the time.

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

You have to change people’s minds to stop inflation.

Growth is good for this society as long as it doesn't pass the point of tripping off inflation.

Everybody always wants more staff. That’s why the federal government gets so overloaded.

Deficits aren't always bad if you invest the money.

The best deficit reduction program is a growing economy.

There must be some flexibility in the budget. You cannot have too much discipline.

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

[God] largely augmented our free population by emancipation and immigration.

Our people are spreading out with the aid of the American multiplication table. Go West and see a young man with his mate of eighteen. After the lapse of 30 years, visit him again and instead of two you will fond 22.

The states where the number of new immigrants were highest tended to benefit from the decades economic upswing.