Recessions Quotes - Page 3

• I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

  Eric Cantor

  Jobs, Creating, Needs

  "Key Republican Lawmakers on GOP Agenda for New Congress". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2010.

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• You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

  David Cameron

  Trying, Cost, Economist

  "The Economist" Interview, www.economist.com. March 31, 2010.

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• So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the - the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

  George W. Bush

  Country, Taken, Hands

  "My Interview with George W. Bush". Interview with Kudlow Report, www.nationalreview.com. November 23, 2010.

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• I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Important, Capacity

  "Warren Buffett on Recession, Taxing the Rich, and Capitalism's 'Regenerative Capacity'". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. September 22, 2010.

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• We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

  Warren Buffett

  Stills

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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

  Country, Boards, Double Standard

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• In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

  Joe Biden

  Climbing, Ideas, Hiking

  "One-on-one with Joe Biden". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 19, 2010.

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• I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

  Mark Edward

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

  "Artists Of The Recession". markedwardadams.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.

  Bill Gross

  Order, Safety, Trying

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• I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Self, People

  "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Funny, Depression

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• The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.

  Michael Symon

  Jobs, Cutting, Iron

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• The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

  Ben Bernanke

  Federal Reserve, Forecasting, Reserves

  Speech at the "Women in Housing and Finance" luncheon in Washington, www.sfgate.com. January 10, 2008.

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• Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.

  Stephen Potter

  Perfection, Majesty, Withdrawal

  "One-Upmanship". Book by Stephen Potter, p. 143, 1952.

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• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Drama, Economic Recession

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• Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

  Aaron Patzer

  People

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• We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

  David Bromstad

  Flirty, War, Optimistic

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• No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Saws

  "Gordon Ramsay: 'I was a crazy psycho'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's "fiscal stimulus" and it sounds like a good one to me.

  Lucy Powell

  Moving, Sound, Economy

  "Fiscal policy announcements show Labour and the Tories are diverging at last" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

  Lucy Powell

  Yield, Fuel Prices, Effort

  "Saving the economy or saving the planet is not an either-or" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2008.

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• We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

  Todd G. Buchholz

  Risk, Economic Recession, Faces

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• All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Bankers, Delighted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fickle, Economic, Good And Bad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an unprecedented state of anger and frustration.

  Amr Moussa

  Frustration, Broken, Soul

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• The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

  Ben Bernanke

  Jobs, Home, Growth

  "Bernanke Says Fed to Keep Rates Low After Economy Strengthens". www.businessinsider.com. October 1, 2012.

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