Vladimir Putin Quotes

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

I have a lot of sympathy for every ailing economy …. The question is not whether you have sympathy. The question is what would be the right measure to help alleviate the situation.

To reduce repossessions caused by unemployment, Gordon Brown needs to look at cutting the rate of corporation tax for small companies to 20 per cent and the main rate to 25 per cent, while reducing the rate of employers' national insurance by 1% for the smallest companies.

I am a Democrat; I want to fund programs that help people. In order to do that, you need to have revenues and you have revenues when you have jobs.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New Deal, today. According to his estimate, these jobs could be created for far less than the [Barack] Obama stimulus package, which cost, you know, $700 or $800 billion, something like that, and produced around 3 million jobs - not a lot. According to his estimates, it would cost less to produce two-thirds of 20 million.

Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit down and take immediate action now to support the economy and create jobs here in Britain.

It looks like [Donald] Trump's plan has the potential to actually move the needle on economic growth because he wants to lower taxes and lower regulations. That would be very powerful in terms of creating jobs.

The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

I am not surprised that this is a longer bit of work than many of us would have hoped. It is not where any of us would have hoped it is. And I think we need to give credit to the Republicans in Congress who have done everything they can to defeat every jobs bill and slow down the economy.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

I supported the stimulus package.

I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.