Able Quote by James Reston

Prosperity should be our goal, not austerity.

— Andrea Leadsom

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive…

— Jim DeMint

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of…

— Walter Russell Mead

Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that…

— Paul Ryan

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered…

— Max Brooks

In the past, Americans have brought forth their best in times of crisis.

— Jake Auchincloss

We have very stable, solid economy; we are going through challenging times.

— Raghuram Rajan

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

— Bill Gross

We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.

— Marco Rubio

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the…

— John W. Snow

Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working…

— Barack Obama

Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in…

— Joseph Stiglitz