Austerity Quote by Dawn Foster

Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.

— Owen Jones

The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out…

— Charles Dallara

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato

Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.

— Ash Sarkar

Even in London, at the centre of the wealthiest region in northern Europe, in so many ways insulated from the financial realities faced by…

— David Olusoga

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their…

— David Cameron

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.

— Jagmeet Singh

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply…

— John Lanchester

One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I want to end austerity.

— John Redwood

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

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

— Paul Wolfowitz