Hubert Humphrey Quotes

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

Economics is not brain surgery.

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

Economics is a very dangerous science

I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

I understand how the economy actually works.

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

No country can violate the laws of economic gravity too long.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order.

95% of economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

Economies are about momentum.

Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn't work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.

Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.