Recessions Quotes - Page 6

• The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Stupid, Silly, Media

  "Rep. Lamar Smith: ‘The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.’". thinkprogress.org. June 4, 2009.

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• A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

  David Gates

  Business, Three, Tactics

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• There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

  Ken Kaess

  Business, Investing, Gains

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• Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

  Ron Fournier

  Jobs, Negative, Campaigns

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• There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

  Rahm Emanuel

  War, Two, Fixing

  "Rahm Emanuel Speech At 2012 Democratic Convention: ‘Which Crisis First?’" by Sabrina Siddiqui, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• In these times of the "Great Recession", we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

  Mark Cuban

  Patriotic, People, Trying

  "Get rich, pay taxes: it's a patriotic duty" by Mark Cuban, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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 used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.

  James Callaghan

  War, Cutting, Thinking

  Labour Party Annual Conference Report, (p. 188), 1976.

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• The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

  Paul Samuelson

  Nine, Lasts, Five

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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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• The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might be big enough to cause a recession in the U.S. economy—while not fully allayed have diminished. Moreover, while the future for housing activity remains uncertain, I think there is a reasonable chance that housing is in the process of stabilizing, which would mean that it would put a considerably smaller drag on the economy going forward.

  Janet Yellen

  Mean, Thinking, Lines

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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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• Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Creative

  "Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture" by Rupert Murdoch, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on global warming have been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.

  Jeff Goodell

  Party, America, Effort

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• 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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• 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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• When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Want, Democrat

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