46 Austerity Quotes for You to Enjoy

The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Education Prosperity Problems Giving Economics Big Understanding Think Honestly Ourselves Degrees Folks Allow Idea Feel Like Mistaken Because Democrats Austerity Wall Wall Street Roll Big Problems Going Door Them Deep Street

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have. Sean O'Casey

With neoliberalism discredited and austerity failed, we need to rewrite the rules of the economy once again. But this time in the right way. We need rules that focus on long-term economic growth, and the only kind of sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity. Joseph Stiglitz

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever. Frances O'Grady

Work People Speak Strong Evidence Biting Responsible More Never Policies Trade Trade Union Been Austerity Up Than Movement Them Working Hard Working People Union Union Movement Now Ever Need Needed

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. Abraham Kuyper

Relations Churches Must Like Existence Austerity Poor

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. Andrew Ross Sorkin

Government Good Patience Confidence Will Pay Believe Back Says Crisis Fraught Scant Restructuring Could Develop Investor Investors Takes Fiscal Governance Years Austerity Debt Politically Moment Large Good Governance

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. Arne Duncan

Education Time More Fiscal Austerity Than Expense Just Even

Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques. Bill Gross

Too Much Country Own Recession Too Out Write Investors Leads Like Print Equity Spreads Austerity Currency Want Stagnation Then Much Even Credit Growth Bond Extent

The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out across the board. Charles Dallara

Degree Difficulties Market Carried Out Facing Excessive Emphasis Countries Fiscal Austerity While Board Far Across Necessary Funding

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s. David Hockney

Austerity Up Grew

The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place. Donovan

Austerity need not be Europe's fate. Francois Hollande

Fate Austerity Europe Need

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became. Graham Swift

Time Family Way Postwar Potential Mentor Writer No-One Budding Became Came Austerity Any Artistic Who

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative. Jeremy Corbyn

Good Problem Light Election Our Sector Civil Civil Servants General General Election Laying Council Instead Stuff Freezing Alternative Real Still Wages Were Off Austerity Offering Labour Going Expenditure Manifesto Public Cutting Public Sector Servants

I want to end austerity. John Redwood

Austerity End Want

Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe. Joseph Stiglitz

Me States Economic Recovered Through Put Economy Austerity Very Going Happen Europe Large United Ever United States Downturn

One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short run can increase corporate profits. Joseph Stiglitz

You People Some People Think Increase Corporate Run One Of The Things Some Wages Austerity Get Short Happens Lower Things Profits

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan. Joyce Banda

People Feeling Once Rural Impact Fact Devalue Had Most Particularly Affected Austerity Huge Shock Going Poor Plan Means Why

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears. Kenneth Fisher

Love Music Government Money Drive Own Savings Ears High Rate Rates More Higher Invest Had Putting Houses Always Climb Italian Italians Austerity Up Than Stocks Gold Happier Plans Even Bonds

Austerity Quotes

No more austerity quotes