Pope John Paul II Quotes

The division of responsibility between economics and politics is indeed one of the most difficult dilemmas with which we are confronted. "Give me a sound economic position, and I will pursue a sound policy", says the Statesman. "How can I pursue a sound policy", says the Economist, "if you do not give me a sound political position?”

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

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

Government has always driven growth.

A stable currency and an excessive external debt are incompatible. A similar relation holds as between a country's currency and an excessive internal debt

Monetary stability is a cornerstone of the social contract.

The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.

The financial services industry is a ward of the state.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

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

The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for.

One cannot have economic growth without security.

We do not want financial convulsions.

It is better to implement reforms in times of economic strength.

The economy is the creation of the personal initiative of private citizens….Public authorities also must play an active role in promoting increased productivity with a view to social progress and the welfare of all citizens.

The market economy does not automatically guarantee growth, social justice, or even economic efficiency; achieving those ends requires that government play an important role.

Our system works best if the value of money stays the same.

Government has a perfect right, indeed a duty, to intervene in the economy in the name of justice, ecology, strategic interests, full employment, or other public goods in which the market has and can have no interest.

Nothing is more vital to our supremacy as a nation and to the beneficent purposes of our Government than a sound and stable currency.

A mature welfare state is always broke.

I'll see to it that prices remain stable. That's what I have my storm troopers for.