Country Quote by Jay Carney

What happened is we went into a recession beginning in December of 2007 that was the worst since 1929. And it is a very…

— Austan Goolsbee

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

— Mitt Romney

Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession,…

— Hillary Clinton

Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has…

— George Will

If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've…

— Dan Quayle

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

— Aaron Patzer

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.

— Rahm Emanuel

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

— Curtis Jackson

I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.

— Mary Pilon

This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982…

— Austan Goolsbee

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're…

— Barack Obama

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

— Caroline Lucas