Again Quote by Antonis Samaras

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

— Alistair Darling

I think it's essential that we do more than talk about austerity measures and cutting.

— Todd Young

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 there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we…

— Franklin Raines

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP.…

— Gerald Celente

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

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

— Ha-Joon Chang

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

— Richard Glover

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

— Caroline Lucas

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

— Paul Krugman

“Austerity, especially when it cannot be offset by a significant lowering of interest rates, brings with it increases in unemployment -- particularly enduring unemployment…

— Alex Himelfarb