Convinced Quote by Herbert Hoover

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort,…

— Herbert Hoover

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

— Thomas A. Edison

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

— Dan Ariely

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

— Kathleen Blanco

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

— Michael Hudson

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize…

— Ronald Reagan

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

— Raghuram Rajan

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take…

— Robert Gibbs

While we are disappointed in performance in 2016, we believe we have a path to a recovery.

— John Paulson

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think…

— Billy Tauzin

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

— John Maynard Keynes

Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is…

— Kurt Andersen