Cycles Quote by Alan Johnson

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

— Tony Blair

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

— Bill Huizenga

Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is…

— Raghuram Rajan

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

— Lucas Papademos

What you want is a government, particularly if you're coming in fresh as a new government, you want stability.

— Humza Yousaf

The first priority is to make sure we have capital to continue to have capital available to put into the financial system. That's the…

— Henry Paulson

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government.

— John McCain

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

— Bob Barr

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And…

— Timothy Geithner

Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and…

— Tony Blair

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

— John Maynard Keynes

Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

— Joe Lonsdale