America Quote by Lamar S. Smith

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

— George Will

“The primary near-term security concern of the United States is the global economic crisis and its geopolitical implications.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

— Aaron Patzer

The collapse of the housing bubble sent the world spiraling into recession. The collapse of the energy and commodity bubble threatens to be just…

— Kelly Evans

I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.

— Andrew Gould

The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

— R. Lee Wrights

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known,

— Elaine Chao

“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became…

— George Packer

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

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war,…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

— Mark Zandi

The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this…

— Jay Carney