Joe Clark Quotes

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

The economy controls the politicians far more than the politicians control the economy.

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

It should not be the government running the economy.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

Commerce is the greatest of all political interests.

Washington doesn't understand interest rates and Wall Street doesn't understand Washington.

The key to democracy has been the free market economy.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore. I was a Republican at a time when I felt like there was a problem that the markets were under a lot more strain. It worried me whether or not the government played too activist a role.

There is no left or right in economic management today.

In this day and age, a big economy – a modern economy – just cannot be managed from the top.

There isn’t that much that Washington can do to effect the economy.

You don't have to kill the economy to regulate it.

We want a market economy without any adjectives. Any compromises with that will only fuzzy up the problems we have.

We now live not in an economic order or a political order, but in a political economy that is closely linked with military institutions and decisions.