Quotes about recession

We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.

— George Bush

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

— Wyndham Lewis

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

— Ronald Reagan

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I could’ve told you this was gonna happen 8 years ago because it is on purpose.

— James Dye