Austerity Quote by Jack Monroe

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

— Ash Sarkar

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

— Owen Jones

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Voters want prosperity, not austerity.

— John Redwood

Austerity and Brexit are two sides of the same coin, like the Brexit party and the Tories.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years,…

— Kevin Rudd

I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.

— Mahesh Bhatt

'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

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

Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the arts.

— John Tiffany