Save and create jobs today, but also lay a foundation for long-term prosperity in the future.
But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.
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Americans should hope they do: because our long-term prosperity is linked to their success, stability, and ambition.
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Mr Livingstone has described Crossrail as "even more important to London's long-term prosperity than our victory in winning the Olympic Games".
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But short-term political need, rather than long-term prosperity, is dictating Argentine policy.
Now, much of what caused this crisis was an era of recklessness where short-term gains were too often prized over long-term prosperity.
To ensure long-term prosperity, European and American firms will surely have to cut costs and re-engineer products more than they have done so far.
But full employment and long-term prosperity are not the same thing.
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But that, they argue, implies a mistaken reliance on factors such as natural resources, cheap wages or geographic location, and will not provide the basis for long-term prosperity.
Governments fret that stronger currencies would make exports less competitive, but they would also encourage firms to shift upmarket from low-skilled to higher-skilled labour, which is essential for long-term prosperity.
What if our decline is due to the very impact of this kind of short term short sighted thinking on the effective management of the social and ecological resources that will increase long term prosperity?
In other words, we have lived through an era where too often short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity, where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election.
She said the US had "learned that supporting long-term prosperity in Haiti meant more than providing aid, it required investments in infrastructure and the economy that would help the Haitian people achieve their own dreams".
The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource that will eventually run out, and even before it runs out will get more and more expensive to extract from the ground.
We can talk all we want about aggregate demand and what it will take to pull us out of our jobs and housing depression, but the key to longer term prosperity and American leadership in the world is improving our broken educational system.
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But now in its third year of ownership by Geely of China, the surviving Scandinavian auto brand is counting on a new marketing campaign and more confident positioning to spark an American revival in the short term while waiting for a fresher, broader product line to provide long-term prosperity.
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Only a handful will be able to parlay short-term athletic success into true long-term financial prosperity.
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As I mentioned, we believe sustainable job growth is the key to our long-term economic prosperity and debt reduction.
Congress needs to make every attempt to minimize cuts in the areas of science and technology, advanced energy, and manufacturing to ensure long-term economic prosperity.
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In a letter to a special parliamentary group, Mr Timms said the UK wanted to "secure long-term peace and prosperity" for Sri Lanka through reconciliation between its communities.
Netanyahu's task is to maintain that support in the face of administration hostility, as he implements policies towards Iran and the Arabs alike that are necessary to ensure Israel's long-term survival and prosperity.
Our strategy to build economically competitive, environmentally sustainable, opportunity-rich communities that serve as the backbone for our long-term growth and prosperity -- three items: First, we'll build strong regional backbones for our economy by coordinating federal investments in economic and workforce development -- because today's metropolitan areas don't stop at downtown.
The budget deficit and the national debt are long term threats to American prosperity.
And no issue is more fundamental to long-term security and sustainable prosperity.
For long-term social cohesion and prosperity it is not enough that board members and institutional investors can explain these huge sums only to themselves.
With an increasingly dense network of holdings in sectors ranging from telecoms and energy to finance and cement, Greece's business world is signalling its long-term commitment to the prosperity and stability of all its neighbouring states.
If current trends continue, the Venezuelan people will have lost the chance to transform their possibly transitory petroleum bonanza into a permanent increase in long term growth rates and future prosperity.
But, how we make these choices is just as important to creating the stability and predictability that can put our nation on a sustainable path to long-term fiscal responsibility and economic prosperity.
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What we won't do, though, is cut investments that will lead to real growth and real prosperity over the long term -- investments that will make a difference in the lives of this generation and future generations.
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