Difficult Quote by Hilary Benn

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of…

— Matt Ridley

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

— Francois-Henri Pinault

In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no…

— Herbert Hoover

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers…

— Adam Thomson

When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly…

— Rory Bremner

The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told,…

— Kevin Drum

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a…

— Tommy Douglas

I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a…

— Mark Edward

It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.”

— Peter Schiff

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20…

— Warren Buffett

“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb