George W. Bush Quotes

The issue is not growth verses fiscal responsibility. We need both!

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

The bottom line of a successful economic policy is jobs.

No nation has ever devalued itself into prosperity.

This country will not support a flat-liner [no economic growth] for President.

A rising economic tide not only raises all ships but prevents them from bumping into each other.

It is impossible for us to proceed with reform and expand the economy amid social upheaval. Order leads to prosperity and chaos to decline.

The politics of growth trump the politics of compassion.

The surpluses of the [19]90s were the result of a growing economy. They were not the result of government policy.

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

If the United States does well [economically], then the whole world does well.

Historically, a Democrat without business experience has been extraordinarily better for the economy and the stock market than a Republican who had a career in business. In the past 84 years, GDP has grown 7 percent per year under Democrats without business experience (FDR, JFK, LBJ, Clinton and Obama) and fallen by .2 percent under Republicans with business experience (Hoover and the 2 Bushes). The Dow has risen an average of 16.8 percent under Democrats without business experience and has fallen 3.7 percent per year under Republicans with business experience.

Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

Voters want prosperity, not austerity.

As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.

I wanted to be clear that Republicans will continue to be a champion for expanding economic freedom to trade. It is at the heart of our free-enterprise system.

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

One has to work on the Polish economy, so that we start getting closer to real prosperity and not prosperity on paper.

Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.

To see off Corbyn's Labour, we need to start the debate as to how and why a market economy is the way to deliver prosperity, social mobility, fully funded public services, and the means to address their concerns about the environment and social justice.

We need a president that's going to be focused on growth.

It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.