Call Quote by Enda Kenny

'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

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to…

— Mario Monti

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

— David Cameron

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

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

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

— Owen Jones

“Austerity is a morality play pressed into the service of legitimizing cynical wealth transfers from the have-nots to the haves during times of crisis,…

— Yanis Varoufakis

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

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

— Todd Young

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt…

— Ray Dalio

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

— Arnaud Montebourg

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

— Jagmeet Singh