14 George W. Bush Quotes on Economy

George W. Bush quotes on economy

15. We ought to make the pie higher.

16. I understand small business growth. I was one.

82. Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.

130. This is my chance to help this lady put some money in her pocket. Let me explain how the economy works. When you spend money to buy food it helps this lady's business. It makes it more likely somebody is going to find work. So instead of asking questions, answer mine: are you going to buy some food?

136. America's economy is strong and getting stronger.

149. That's why I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

205. I aim to be a competitive nation.

271. Wait, what did you just say? You're predicting $4 a gallon gasoline?. . . That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

272. I hadn't heard that.... I, frankly, have been focused elsewhere, like on gasoline prices.

282. Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work.

308. The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

366. Today, having come far in our own historical journey, we must decide: Will we turn back, or finish well? Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. Like Americans before us, we will show that courage and we will finish well. We will lead freedom's advance. We will compete and excel in the global economy. We will renew the defining moral commitments of this land. And so we move forward - optimistic about our country, faithful to its cause, and confident of victories to come.

384. I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply. Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.

385. Every time they say tax the rich, the rich dodge and you pay.