Kenneth Rogoff Quotes

Venezuela needs to develop; economic growth is essential for the country after so many years of lagging behind.

People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.

The best deficit reduction program is a growing economy.

A growth economy is a must.

Global economic growth significantly increases with the growth of the world’s economic freedom.

Europe needs to make its first, second and third economic priorities economic development.

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth.

Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth.

... a better government: more complete security of property; moderate taxes; a more permanent ... tenure of land ... the introduction of foreign arts ... and the introduction of foreign capital, which renders the increase of production no longer exclusively on the thrift or providence of the inhabitants themselves.

If anyone will study the causes of retarded recuperation in Europe, he will find much of it due to stifling of private initiative on one hand, and overloading of the government with business on the other.

It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic.

No President is going to be satisfied with 3% growth in the economy even when you explain to him that over the long term things will be fine for everyone at 3% growth. He says: 'I'll go for 5% growth and let the next guy settle for 3%.'

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

Debt relief without the opening of markets will not relieve third world countries from their poverty.

A dynamic economy, with more citizens working and paying taxes, will be our strongest tool to bring down budget deficits

Government has always driven growth.

If the United States does well [economically], then the whole world does well.

Our problem number 1, 2 and 3 is economic development.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

I want to change Italy and get the economy back on track.

The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.