Recession Quotes · Page 3

In terms of the economy, look, I inherited a recession, I am ending on a recession.

— George W. Bush

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.

— Andrew Gould

“Until the Fed lets us have a real recession, as painful as that may be, we are never gonna have a recovery.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

— Robert Kiyosaki

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

— Ronald Reagan

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

— Stephen Harper

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

“He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class,…

— Ida Løkås

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not…

— Julianna Baggott

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other…

— Matthew Yglesias

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of…

— Brit Hume

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the…

— Michael Moore

When the economy collapsed, our construction company was in Calgary, but the U.S. was further along in the recession, so I made…

— Jonathan Scott

Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the…

— Paul Krugman

“Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell” model. This proved such a…

— Michael Lewis

“Brazil fell into recession in the first half of the year, according to official data which showed the economy shrinking by 0.6%…

— Anonymous

The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States…

— George Friedman

We don't tell New Zealanders we can stop the global recession, because we can't. What we do tell them is we can…

— John Key

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the…

— Stephen Harper

It's important to prepare audience for the worst in life. People come to forget their problems, and it's my job, right before…

— Eugene Mirman

Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a…

— Mark Zandi

“It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,” he wrote. “There are specific identifiers that are…

— Michael Lewis

Whenever there is a recession, the first sector that bounces back is technology services.

— Ashok Soota

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.

— Rahm Emanuel

“If war is gods way of teaching geography to Americans, then recession is his way of teaching little economics to everyone”

— Raj Patel

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.

— Michael Mina

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

— George M. Humphrey

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

— Antonis Samaras

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

— Ronald Reagan

History has shown that even in a recession, consumers go to shows.

— Michael Rapino

People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.

— Janet Yellen

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

— Mitch McConnell

This global recession has had a detrimental effect on my sex life. It's ages since I've been able to afford it.

— Anonymous

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

— Pete Sessions

“saving a year’s worth of expenses will provide a sufficient buffer to weather nearly any recession.”

— Anonymous

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

— Mitt Romney

Recession leads to depression, from our obsession, of what was once our possession

— Anonymous

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

— Paul Johnson