We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Austerity, especially when it cannot be offset by a significant lowering of interest rates, brings with it increases in unemployment -- particularly… — Alex Himelfarb Copy Share Image
The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis. — Arnaud Montebourg Copy Share Image
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. — Moliere Copy Share Image
The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift… — Meredith Whitney Copy Share Image
“Barriers remain in place, disabling us, and denying our full participation in the everyday. The current government wallows in an ideology that… — Penny Pepper Copy Share Image
“Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative… — Lou Jiwei Copy Share Image
The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“All around the world, the hard realities of a warming world are crashing up against the brutal logic of austerity, revealing just… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Air Marshal Nur Khan, a war hero and former Pakistan air force chief, had once likened Pakistan’s aid dependency to ‘taking opium’.… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to… — Jude Wanniski Copy Share Image
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image