Recession Quotes · Page 4

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

— Peter Welch

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

— Daniel Hannan

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

— Harry S Truman

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

— Linda Ronstadt

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

— Francois-Henri Pinault

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

— Curtis Jackson

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

— Janet Yellen

Its a recession when your neighbor loses his job; its a depression when you lose your own.

— Harry S Truman

One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado,…

— John Hickenlooper

The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession…

— Nouriel Roubini

I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the…

— Warren Buffett

As far as recession goes I know it's a difficult time out here for people, but me, myself I honestly have to…

— Drake

Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more…

— Lucy Powell

I remember in 2007, 2008, when we had the recession, there were all of these very gloomy emails sent from a lot…

— Andy Jassy

“There are fears that Britain could be facing a double-dip recession, or worse still, a double-dip with misery sprinkles and fuck-where's-my-job-sauce.”

— Frankie Boyle

Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet.…

— Yiannis Stournaras

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the…

— George W. Bush

“Because the lenders sold many—though not all—of the loans they made to other investors, in the form of mortgage bonds, the industry…

— Michael Lewis

The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a…

— Milton Friedman

We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting…

— James Callaghan

UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours…

— Lester Holt

The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month,…

— Bill Dedman

“The simple measure of sanity in housing prices, Zelman argued, was the ratio of median home price to income. Historically, in the…

— Michael Lewis

I was a child of the '60s basically, which is a real blank. I really started growing up, I think, in the…

— Gavin Friday

If oil prices will go too high, it will slow down the world economy and would trigger a global recession.

— Khalid A. Al-Falih

Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a…

— Jamie Johnson

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

— Martin O'Malley

The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.

— John Lanchester

I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.

— Mary Pilon

Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.

— Eric Garcetti

There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

— Mark Zandi

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

— Eugene Fama

A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

— David Gates

We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.

— Richard Glover

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

— Chris O'Dowd

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be…

— Anonymous

I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to…

— Angela Merkel

Our goal is not to douse the recession with money, which would be useless, as both you and I know. Our goal…

— Dmitry Medvedev

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent,…

— Joe Biden