#economic

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#even #idea #inconvenient #laws #repeal

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#another #class #cuts #economic #economic policies

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#conscience #cultural #done #economic #educational

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares. ↗

— Rosser Reeves

#advertising #aloud #cries #economics #extension

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#economic #effect #environment #etc #everything

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. ↗

— Robert Reich

#attention #been #divisive #economic #economic values

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. ↗

— Robert Reich

#economic growth #free #free trade #globalization #goods

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#border #economic #forward #going #homeland