Andrew J. Polsky Quotes

Government has always driven growth.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

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

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

When the economies of countries grow, their militaries generally do as well.

The corporate welfare state derived from an approach to economic development which worships at the shrine of the gross national product.

China’s rulers wanted row country to get rich, but not at the cost of control.

We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country.

Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because these are policy variables that can be changed by state governments in order to get better results than they otherwise had.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

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.

It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

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

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country.

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.