Arthur Laffer Quotes

In this country, we value our open, free-market system - including the way it attracts international investment and talent to our country.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

Global economic growth significantly increases with the growth of the world’s economic freedom.

Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

London has a centrifugal pull on talent, investment and business from the rest of Europe and the world. That brings benefits to the broader U.K. economy.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

You know, capital isn't patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

Because there can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity, liberalism carries a heavy responsibility in fighting continuously to expand our economy.

The global economy and its technologies can be hugely liberating for those in a position to take advantage of them.

Without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.