Recession Quotes
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning. Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
Warren Buffett -
We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
Warren Buffett -
There are some people who would have it politically convenient to have a recession because that means they would have a political advantage. We are not going to let that happen, ... By moving that tax cut early and having it in time to kick this economy up and get it going, we are not going to let that happen.
Dennis Hastert -
There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.
Irving Fisher -
I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part.
Alice Walton -
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
Ben Bernanke
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Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.
Walt Disney -
I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.
Paul Krugman -
The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.
Ben Bernanke -
Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
I don't see any significant risk of a recession.
Ben Bernanke -
There's no magical relationship between inverted yield curves and recession. There's a debate why long-term rates are so low. It's partly a low term premium and a lot of saving looking for a relatively limited number of investments.
Ben Bernanke
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There won't be any changes until we have another depression like in the 1930s, which we have not approached yet in the present recession.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
Marianne Williamson -
In God, there is no lack and no recession.
Marianne Williamson -
For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.
Evan Davis -
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 - you're in the airline business.
Adam Thomson -
The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.
Rebekah Brooks
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Until the Fed lets us have a real recession, as painful as that may be, we are never gonna have a recovery.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and listen to the voices of America.
Jimmy Carter -
Donald Trump would send us back into recession with his tax plans that benefit the wealthiest of Americans.
Hillary Clinton -
The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.
Bill Clinton