Forum - Economics and Politics

Famous quotes containing the words economics and, economics and/or politics:

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.”
—Jacques Chirac (b. 1932)

“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)