Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

People at the top spend less money than those at the bottom, so when you have redistribution toward the top, aggregate demand goes down. Unless you intervene, you're going to have a weak economy unless something else happens.

Voters want prosperity, not austerity.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress believed we could spend our way to prosperity, and I guess they still do.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

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

The normal half-brained politician sometimes doesn't understand capital markets.

No nation has ever devalued itself into prosperity.

Great prosperity is coming. It will be tremendously increased if we can extend reasonable credit to our customers.... To maintain our prosperity we must finance it.