Recession

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

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(125 votes)   We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.

George Bush
1924-, Forty-first President of the USA

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(119 votes)   I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(114 votes)   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
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(112 votes)   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
1932, Polish Report and Foreign Correspondent

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(109 votes)   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
1882-1957, British Author, Painter

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