The economy, stupid!

-Anonymous
  Sign in the Clinton campaign headquarters which became a by-word for the central issue of the1992 presidential campaign. Quoted in Fortune,19 Oct.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

-Babbage, Charles
  On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.

Political economy tracesinanabstract way theeffects of the desire to be rich; and nations must nowadays abound in that passion if theyare to have much poweror respect in the world.

-Bagehot,Walter
  'Preliminaries of Political Economy', collected in Economic Studies (1880).

John Stuart Mill, By a mighty effort of will, Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote'Principles of Political Economy'.

-Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
  Biography for Beginners,'John Stuart Mill'.

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

-Deng Xiaoping
  Address to US businessmen organized by  Time magazine, 18 Dec.

Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

-Eden, Sir (Robert) Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon
  In the Observer,17  Jun.

   No economy ever stands still.

-Harrod, Sir Roy
  The British Economy.

In art economy is always beauty.

-James, Henry
  Preface for revised NewYork edn of  The Altar of the Dead (first published1895).

Mientras en Norteame¤  rica la colonizacio¤  n deposito¤   los ge¤  rmenes de un esp|¤ritu y una econom|¤a que se plasmaban entonces en Europa y a los cuales pertenec|¤a el porvenir, a la Ame¤  rica espan‹  ola trajo los efectos y los me¤  todos de un esp|¤ritu y una econom|¤a que declinaban ya y a los cuales no pertenec|¤a sino el pasado. Whereas in North America colonization planted the seeds of the spirit and economy then growing in Europe

-Maria¤ t egui,Jose¤   Carlos
French poet,  author of  Lais  and  Fables.  Born in Normandy,  she spent most of her life in England. Her Lais in particular  were of great influence on French literature.

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. The purpose shall be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

-Marshall, George C(atlett)
  Speech at Harvard, 5  Jun, announcing the European Recovery Plan (ER A) that became known as the Marshall Plan.

Political economy thus does not recognize the unoccupied worker, the working man so far as he is outside this work relationship. Swindlers, thieves, beggars, the unemployed, the starving, poverty- stricken and criminal working man, are figures which do not exist for political economy, but only for other eyes; fordoctors, judges,grave-diggers,beadles,etc.Theyare ghostly figures outsidethe domain of political economy.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  Collected in T B Bottomore (trans and ed) Early Writings (1964), p.137^9.

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.

-Maxton,James
  Speech against the withdrawal of child benefits, including the supply of milk, in Scotland. In Hansard, 27  Jun.

Political economy (the economyof a State, orofcitizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things.

-Ruskin,John
  Unto this Last, essay 2.

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists:Virtues and Vices'.

They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen† Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.

-Smollett,Tobias George
  Of the nobility of Boulogne.Travels through France and Italy.

Thinking precisely and systematically about something as complex and irregular as a modern economy is very difficult, maybe impossible.

-Solow, Robert M
  In the NewYorkTimes Book Review, 30 Dec.

Although woman has performed much of the labor of theworld, her industryand economy have beenthevery means of increasing her degradation.

-Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady
The History ofWoman Suffrage1848^61, vol.1, ch.1, 'Preceding Causes'.

Afew weeksago Ihad a revelation and told my secretary that I could give him a synthesis of forty-six years of living with economic policy. It is: 'Economic policy is random with respect to the performance of the American economy, but, thank God, there isn't much of it.'

-Stein, Herbert
  Washington Bedtime Stories.

   It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.

-Steuart (later Denham), SirJames
  Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence† We make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

-Stevens, Brooks
Quoted inVance Packard TheWaste Makers (1960), ch.6.This is thought to be the first use of the phrase'planned obsolescence'.