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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James

War, Government, After

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
C. L. R. James

War, Government, Against

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.
Bob McDonnell

Made, Energy, Wanted

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
Mark Cuban

Business, Lost, Purpose

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.
Emanuel Celler

Character, Fight, Political

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
Karen Mills

Small, Hit, Credit

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
Karen Mills

Government, Business, Successful

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
Karen Mills

Business, Help, Give

We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
Bernard Ebbers

Future, Growth, Drive

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.
Rob Portman

Hurt, Help, Why

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.
Susan George

Nature, Problems, Year

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
Gavin Newsom

Great, Business, Real

The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.
Jamie Dimon

Good, Best, Give

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.
Jamie Dimon

Mistakes, Tough, Problems

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
Alfred Marshall

Wealth, Devoted, Further

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
John Buchanan Robinson

Money, Simple, May

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.
Charles E. Wilson

Men, Free, Themselves

Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital.
Arthur Laffer

Freedom, Trying, Country

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
Arthur Laffer

Bad, Country, Trade

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
Arthur Laffer

Government, Stress, Mean

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
Bam Margera

Country, Tell, Geography

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the U.S. dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level.
Hu Jintao

United, Level, Policy

We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.
John W. Snow

Deepest, Liquid, Markets

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
Kate Millett

Country, Based, Becoming

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
Ann Macbeth

Yourself, Investment, Build

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Laurence Housman

Trust, Time, Hope

Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.
Todd Tiahrt

Family, Money, Death

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
David Korten

Power, Free, Everyone

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
Joe Elliott

Around, Europe, Seeing

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.
Vito Fossella

Best, Here, American

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