Economic Recovery Quotes

#1. The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

Mark Zandi

#2. Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Jeffrey Sachs

#3. The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

Thomas Frank

#4. A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.

Marianne Williamson

#5. We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism ... We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Scargill

#6. What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

Eric Cantor

#7. There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

Tim Scott

#8. The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

Romano Prodi

#9. The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them to gamble. That particular style of restoration actually inhibits the economic recovery.

Joseph Stiglitz

#10. A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

William Julius Wilson

#11. The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

Joseph Crowley

#12. In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

Barack Obama

#13. I would be strongly committed to working with the FOMC to continue promoting a robust economic recovery ... I consider it imperative that we do what we can to promote a very strong recovery.

Janet Yellen

#14. Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs

Nancy Pelosi

#15. We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#16. If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama's policies, and he's not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he's gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doubling their premiums?

Rush Limbaugh

#17. The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

Ben Bernanke

#18. Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.

Todd Tiahrt

#19. We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

Michelle Bachelet

#20. I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

Victor Ponta

#21. A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.

Janet Yellen

#22. It is fair to say that Africa has become a major force in moving the world towards multi-polarity, an important emerging market that helps promote global economic recovery and integration, and an outstanding representative of diverse civilizations in the world.

Li Keqiang

#23. In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes.

Ben Bernanke

#24. Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

Elizabeth Warren

#25. Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

John Cornyn

#26. For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.

Peter Welch

#27. The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.

Ronald Reagan

#28. The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

Mitch Daniels

#29. The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.

Edward Mazria

#30. But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#31. The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

Herbert Hoover

#32. There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.

Bernie Sanders

#33. It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

Alex Jones

#34. At the federal level, the fiscal stimulus of 2008 and 2009 supported economic output, but the effects of that stimulus faded; by 2011, federal fiscal policy actions became a drag on output growth when the recovery was still weak.

Janet Yellen

#35. While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence.

Mo Ibrahim

#36. Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.

John F. Kennedy

#37. Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

James F. Byrnes

#38. Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion,

Elaine Chao

#39. This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

Samuel Untermyer

#40. Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Eric Alterman

#41. I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

Rahm Emanuel