We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

India’s trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I have become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

Until we have comprehensive financial education, we’ll never see the end of our booms and busts.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

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.‘

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‚How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?‘

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.