Sigmar Gabriel Quotes

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

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

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

We are on the our way to a free market economy. Regardless of the mistakes and omissions, the government has managed to implement a firm and consistent economic policy. Regardless of how incomplete it still is, the transition to free market relations and democracy has become irreversible.

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

Mexico is a market economy, but we should have better markets.

The income disparity is a huge issue. And I think that the only solution to this - there is no easy solution - are fundamental changes. That the world is changing quicker than our policies are changing. And we need the kinds of policies that will let us have a competitive economy going forward.

We need to go faster on structural reforms in France.

Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.

We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.

Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.

I think the Greek people, although it is difficult and challenging and the politics of it I know are not good, should appreciate the fact that in this global economy, the Greek economy was going to have to go through some structural reforms.

America's government has to get the public investments right.

I will continue to decisively promote reforms that will promote growth, and at the same time, I will continue to negotiate hard in order to avoid any reforms that would undermine growth.

I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

But let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do.

I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.