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The statists want to control the economy. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#economy #want

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#deficit #economy #focus #government #government spending

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#citizens #depending #free #free citizens #gnp

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#arguing #been #capital #capital gains #certainly

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work. ↗

— Douglass North

#clear #did #economies #fail #find

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. ↗

— Douglass North

#brilliant #chess #economic #economic theory #first

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990. ↗

— Douglass North

#development #during #economic #explore #framework

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist. ↗

— Douglass North

#become #continuous #convinced #course #did

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment. ↗

— Gale Norton

#economic #economic activity #environment #i #i think

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy. ↗

— Gale Norton

#china #economies #energy #india #know