Goran Persson Quotes

It’s hard for the opposition party to break in when things are going well economically.

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

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

To get anything done, Obama has to be seen as having winning economy - which isn't easy.

Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

It is not the Federal government that makes prosperity in this country.

It is impossible for us to proceed with reform and expand the economy amid social upheaval. Order leads to prosperity and chaos to decline.

For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.

We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.

In Europe, we see the underlying strength of the economy, especially in southern European countries.

We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe.

Relative to other economies in the world, India has a good feel to it.

As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.

Obviously, the domestic need is to shape an economic policy that assures long-term healthy economic growth and a reassertion of American competitiveness in international competition.

I just believe that government borrowing and spending doesn't lead to economic prosperity, growth, or sustainable jobs. I know that it comes from the private sector: people who invest in their businesses and ideas.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

Is the investment community critical to our economic success? Yes. Free markets, innovation, access to credit, venture capital, and strong labor rights - these have been the underpinnings of our economic vitality, from laying railways to broadband lines.

Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.

The success of monetary policy should be judged by the economy's performance against our statutory mandates of price stability and maximum employment.

Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.

Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.

I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.