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I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.