Alan Greenspan Quotes

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

I would like to see a fair division of profits between capital and labor, so that the toiler could save enough to mingle a little June with the December of his life.

Wages, which cannot be considered as a mere commodity must enable the worker and his family to have access to a truly human standard of living in the material, social, cultural and spiritual orders.

Our country is wherever we are well off.

Democracy is liberty plus economic security. We Americans want to pray, think as we please—and eat regular.

We will plant our flag on the hill of economic security.

An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease and security in order that he and his children may retain the right of free men.

The health of a nation is not just about its consumption expenditures …. one of the things that makes America such a great nation, and why so many people aspire to this American ideal of middle-class security, is that it's about more than that. It's about more than how much you can purchase with the dollar. It's about this feeling of security and about being able to give your kids a better life than you had. And that is really the foundation—one of the major founding principles of our country

I trust the American People more than American Institutions.

… once you acknowledge the fact that Congress is after all made up of citizens elected to represent all of us, you must have some faith in their framing common sense laws.

The world must now either accept long-term chaos for the sake of short term comforts or make short term sacrifices for the sake of long term comforts.

Whereas the constitution of … Holland is in its principles a popular representation, it is necessary that the right of the people be duly ascertained; that the members of the States be rendered responsible to them for their conduct and be precluded from taking any decisive step without their consent …

Everybody in America must have a sense that he can get a job and a have a decent standard of living.

In a mature democracy any proposed policy should be subjected to a close analysis of its likely benefits and costs.

Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.

Banking should be boring..

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation to address it, I'm confident we are moving in the right direction.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

We think that when the American people make a decision together that they want something, politicians have to listen to them, and that's the process we believe in.

A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

I've got a family, and I love them, and I want them to have the best opportunities in the best country in the world, and I think we have to fight for it.