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

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

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

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

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 go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

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.

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.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

That’s what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It’s about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we’ll still have coverage.

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.

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

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

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.‘

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

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 suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

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

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men’s lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital – in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

No one saw the recession coming.

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.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren’t the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.