Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.

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

I don’t think everybody fully appreciates the consequences of slower growth, which are very serious. You need growth to have the resources to build the infrastructure, housing, to uphold the standard of living.

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

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

Western–style redistributive programs-progressive taxation, social security, unemployment insurance-should be encouraged, but at least in the short run, they have limited potential. There simply is not enough to tax, and nearly no one can be trusted to transfer revenues.

The first thing that any President must do to lead effectively on economic issues is to persuade the country that trade matters.

The best deficit reduction program is a growing economy.

When you have stability, you have at least an opportunity to enjoy prosperity because investment flows. Business tends to follow the flag. When they find a secure environment, they will invest.

A growth economy is a must.

The politics of growth trump the politics of compassion.

No one has developed a magic formula for how to make countries grow, though economic researchers have identified a number of poisons. Corruption, overweening government intervention, and mountains of debt are contraindicated for countries attempting to develop.

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

Tythes [tax revenues] increase within any territory as the labor of that country increases, and labor does, or ought to, increase as the people do.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.

Government has always driven growth.

Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.