Economic Quote by Bill Maher

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

— Molly Ivins

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

— Timothy Noah

Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher…

— Gordon Brown

There was a hope then by some people that what we call trickle-down economics would work. That if you made the economy pie bigger,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it, it'll go…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

President Reagan preached 'trickle down economics' but naively did not reckon on the fact that the wealthy would only care about getting more for…

— Mark Goulston

Now it is unambiguously clear that trickle-down economics does not work. But what does that mean? That means we have to structure our economic…

— Joseph Stiglitz

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

— Barack Obama

“This crisis didn’t have to happen. America had a boom-and-bust cycle from the 1790s to the 1930s, with a financial panic every ten to…

— Elizabeth Warren

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

— Dave Matthews

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked.…

— Hillary Clinton

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960…

— Dave Van Ronk