"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."

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"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."

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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."

Office,

"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."

Time, Principles, Understanding

"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output."

Business, Employees, Law, Limits, State

"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."

Reading, Read

"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."

Government, Expression, First, Principles

"Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms."

Economy, Ownership, State

"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."

People, Goal, Being, Bosses

"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents."

Change, Months, Spring, University

"The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents."

Impression, Deep, Events, Parents

"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."

Policy, Will

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"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."

Barack Obama, American President

Economy, Health, Progress, Goal, Care

"My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created."

Barack Obama, American President

Economy, Being, Problems, Years

"Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it."

Barack Obama, American President

Economy, People, Now, Running

"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Economy, Nation, Trade

"I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well."

Wayne Allard, American Politician

Economy, President

"My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use."

Kenneth Joseph Arrow, American Economist

Economy, Deals, Information, Production, Research

"Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget."

Christian Audigier, French Designer

Economy, Drinks, Forget, Want

"The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

Economy, Years

"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

Economy, Unemployment

"Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy."

John Baldacci, American Politician

Economy, Energy, Environment