Barack Obama Quotes

In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes, even while making record investments in education and roads and health care.

My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.

To those who say Britain cannot afford to invest in infrastructure, I say we cannot afford not to invest in our future.

Build the roads and the jobs follow.

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

The corporate welfare state derived from an approach to economic development which worships at the shrine of the gross national product.

The army did more to shape the pattern and direction of economic development than did any other federal agency, any state government, or any private agency.

Infrastructure is sort of that good spending in the middle, where even if you do misallocate resources a little bit, you still have something to show for it. It's tangible; it may help economic growth and so forth.

The fact is, Canada needs investment, particularly in infrastructure.

All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their infrastructure. They're investing in their educations. They are trying to streamline regulations, but they're not neglecting key investments.

We need to take bold action to invest in infrastructure projects to spur our economy and ensure that we are protecting good paying jobs.

I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure... and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.

Building infrastructure is our most powerful tool to create jobs and improve the playing field for all businesses.

Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure.

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything. Even the IMF and the World Bank seem to mainly offer infrastructure spending as an alternative to austerity, although they are right to focus on the need for investment.

We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.

The Golden State has lost its luster. We've got to change our tax system and how we fund government. We're going to have to make it easier to create jobs in California, incentivize manufacturing, really put more in the way of investment in our public school system and our institutions of higher learning if we're going to stay the Golden State.

We need to strengthen basic infrastructure in border areas so that people don't migrate to other places looking for better opportunities.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

A budget is a reflection of our values, and as a member of the House Budget Committee, I work each year to ensure that our federal budget invests in programs that support working families, enhance our research and development capabilities, and ensure the safety and security of the American people.

I think government actually does create jobs.

The urbanising middle class of the 1960s and 1970s had schools, hospitals, roads, energy services, even cultural institutions - all created by the state, or under its aegis. When liberalisation came along, they were poised and ready for take-off.

We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.

Countries with fiscal space should invest in physical and social infrastructure to raise potential growth.