Susan George Quotes

Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth.

Government ... simply has no bottom line.

From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.

When you hide behind a veil of your financial business you never know who you're influencing, where your priorities lie. But I think it's important that the American people have some glimpse or some understanding of the financial standing of their commander-In-chief.

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

Quite frankly, the financial community has to improve its image. The financial community has to be much more transparent than it is.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

It is the duty of those serving the people in public place to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the Government economically administered.

We have to educate our way to a better economy.

A budget must be more than a ledger sheet. It should have a heart and serve as a blueprint for a better quality of life for all residents.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.

Every public official concerned with administering public funds owes it to all our citizens to be prepared at any time to account to the last penny of the public money placed in his hands.

I was doing economic development for minorities. I was getting black folks to use their dollars to help each other.

It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.

We all need a lot of humility, and especially about the economy.

We can't let government make long-term commitments that it may not be able to keep.

Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work as per law without fear or favour. His ability to think big and implement it on the ground is exemplary. He had a vision of a bank account for every household.

The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.

Congress must do what we said we would and find ways to pay for bills we propose so we don't leave future generations mired in debt.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.