Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

In a climate where governments are limited in what they can spend, trade and investment offer a path to fiscally responsible growth.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

It is not our foreign trade that has caused the wonderful growth and expansion of the Republic.

Kennedy had already, in 1962, lowered investment taxes on business. And after his tragic assassination, his broader tax proposals were passed into law in early 1964. And they worked. The U.S. economy grew by roughly 5 percent yearly for nearly eight years.

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.

Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.

Our most important priority is sustained economic growth, and I think we can absolutely get to sustained 3% to 4% GDP, and that is absolutely critical for the country.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.

Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation.

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.