Growth Quotes

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

~ Al Gore

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

~ William Hague

Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.

~ Ma Jun

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

~ Barry Commoner

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

~ Christopher Dodd

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

~ Larry Page

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

~ P. Chidambaram

Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.

~ Enda Kenny

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

~ George Washington

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

~ Hannah Arendt

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

~ John F. Kennedy

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

~ Ernestine Rose

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

~ Günter Grass

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi