Marriner Eccles Quotes

And people talk about the stimulus package and the jobs that it was supposed to create, it certainly didn't have the intended effects that everybody was hoping for or that the president and administration certainly was hoping for. So I think it's time to lay some new solutions on the table, some new ideas.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

The market economy does not automatically guarantee growth, social justice, or even economic efficiency; achieving those ends requires that government play an important role.

To reduce inequality, employment must be sustained by appropriate macroeconomic policy.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

My job is to stop Britain going red.

The American economy must be altered to put business back in the driver's seat. The correct role for finance is to support job creation.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

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.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Government has a perfect right, indeed a duty, to intervene in the economy in the name of justice, ecology, strategic interests, full employment, or other public goods in which the market has and can have no interest.

We believe that the federal government is responsible to give every man employment or a guaranteed income.

We simply cannot check inflation by keeping people out of work.

We cannot separate politics from economics.