Slowdown Quotes

#1. We're going to be in an economic slowdown for a couple of years. So to take three months, four months, six months to spend this money the right way-we're not going to get a chance to spend a trillion dollars again! Ever. So let's do it the right way.

Van Jones

#2. If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world.

Stephen S. Roach

#3. I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

Nancy Pelosi

#4. Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Mitt Romney

#5. What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#6. Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.

Lucy Powell

#7. We do see significant signs of a slowdown, in the economy worldwide.

Marek Belka

#8. Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.

Michael Hudson

#9. The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.

Peter Schiff

#10. In other words, when women acquire critical skills and starting weighing their options they soon wise up to the fact that they're not getting enough recompense for their labors. In trade union terms, you'd call it a production slowdown ...

Meghan Daum

#11. The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

Edmund Phelps

#12. One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.

Dick Cheney

#13. You may slowdown, but time will not wait for you.

Debasish Mridha

#14. People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.

Janet Yellen

#15. Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

John Podhoretz

#16. During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

Pankaj Patel

#17. As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

Marc Faber

#18. You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

Joe Biden

#19. Lao Yang told him that sixty, like sixteen, was the best time in life, an age where the burdens of one's forties and fifties had been laid down, but the slowdown and illness of the seventies and eighties had not yet arrived.

Liu Cixin

#20. During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Geoff Hoon

#21. Should global energy prices rise enough, then higher shipping costs will curtail or slow the globalization of production. The consequences of such a slowdown would be global and serious.

James Peoples

#22. If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

S. Jay Olshansky

#23. Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

Lucy Powell

#24. British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

David Frost

#25. I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His word.

Dwight L. Moody

#26. The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

Nigel Cumberland

#27. The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

Jimmy Rushing

#28. But these threats do not move or alarm me, and for the best of all possible reasons; I do not believe that the gentlemen who make these threats intend to leave their places on this floor - nor, if they should, would the country suffer any loss. The

Cydnor Bailey Tompkins

#29. Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.

Allan Lokos

#30. Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together ...

Arthur Golden

#31. A disciple: I am worried about human suffering all over the world. What is the solution?Spiritual leader: The solution to our miseries lie within central atom of our being, 'I'. Once this central atom transcends to 'WE', human sufferings can be resolved.

Santosh Kalwar

#32. But as an escort it's our duty to hold their attention and play with their heads. The one between their ears and the one in their pants.

S.K. Logsdon

#33. The precondition to freedom is security.

Rand Beers

#34. I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

Rachel Ward

#35. If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,
then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.

Toba Beta

#36. I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.

Dallas Roberts

#37. If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Samuel Butler

#38. Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#39. He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Frances Wright

#40. We hide behind our assumptions and preconceptions as if they were fortresses - shutting people out. I love to witness the fall of a preconception; the way it renders you naked

Karen Hitchcock