Steve Forbes Quotes

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

I think that in the last eight years, we were averaging economic growth of about 2 percent. It's not good. It's very slow. It's a slow pace. People are expecting that pace to continue if Hillary Clinton becomes president.

I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

If America and China collide, both will suffer.

The best way to revitalize the economy is war, and the U.S. has grown stronger [economically] with war.

Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.

If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?

Kennedy had already, in 1962, lowered investment taxes on business. And after his tragic assassination, his broader tax proposals were passed into law in early 1964. And they worked. The U.S. economy grew by roughly 5 percent yearly for nearly eight years.

The world over, it was believed that, down the line, India will emerge as a major economy along with U.S. and China.

President-elect Trump is inheriting a relatively strong economy, and markets are pricing in faster growth under his watch.

Look at what's happening, how Iran is taunting us. Look at what's going on, look at the world.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq, it's been more or less continuous. The appalling war in Libya, which has wrecked that country and wrecked that part of the world, and which isn't over by any means. The indirect Western intervention in Syria, which has created new monsters. These are policies, which if carried out by any individual government, would be considered extremist. Now, they're being carried out collectively by the United States, backed by some of the countries of the European Union.

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

We see very broad-based, moderate, growth. Most of the sectors are quite strong. I don't see any major potholes, and I believe [the economy] is strengthening.

We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.

The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how a third could start. There are also people who think that the war has been going for a long time.

I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.