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Quotes About Recession

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
~ Michael Mina
People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.
~ Janet Yellen
Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.
~ Brit Hume
And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.
~ Franklin Raines
The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
~ Stephen Harper
We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.
~ Martin O'Malley
So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country until people get back to work, until they have good-paying jobs, and in between times, we will not move this economy forward until we are helping people be able to keep going in this recession.
~ Debbie Stabenow
Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.
~ Doug Ose
Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.
~ George Papandreou
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
~ Jill Lepore
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
~ Lael Brainard
Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
~ Jamie Johnson
The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression.
~ Jay Carney
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
There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.
~ Mark Zandi
The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
~ Omari Hardwick
A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.
~ Curtis Jackson
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
~ Paul Johnson
I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
~ Young Jeezy
People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.
~ Eugene Fama
New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.
~ John Catsimatidis
It is well documented that brands that increase advertising during a recession, when competitors are cutting back, can improve market share and return on investment at lower cost than during good economic times.
~ John Quelch
I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.
~ Michael Gove