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.
The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth.
It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.
Permissible growth in the future has to be based on sustainable and equitable models.
Minnesota's diversity should be its greatest strength, but our neglect of nonwhite students has stifled our progress toward growth and equity.
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.
In 1994, Estonia became the first European country to adopt a flat tax, and its 26 percent flat tax dramatically energized what had been a faltering economy. Before adopting the flat tax, the Estonian economy was literally shrinking. In the eight years after 1994, Estonia experienced real economic growth - averaging 5.2 percent per year.
I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.
Many European countries and Japan need to free their labour markets and liberalise services to boost productivity growth.
It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth.
Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.
Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
