Austerity Quote by Alistair Darling

“Arbitrary limits on deficits and debt hinder a nation’s development. Austerity for the sake of balanced budgets or for the sake of preserving fiscal…

— L. Randall Wray Yeva Nersisyan

It certainly would be helpful going forward for deficit reduction efforts to focus on the medium term while not subtracting from the impetus we…

— Janet Yellen

If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan…

— Barack Obama

Governments need to lay out a credible path to reducing their deficits in the medium term, but without excessively enfeebling an already weak recovery.…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and…

— Manmohan Singh

The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

— Bernie Sanders

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

— Anonymous

I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we…

— Stephen Harper

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing…

— Meredith Whitney

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

— Antonis Samaras

Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit…

— Ed Balls