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.

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

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

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.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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.

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.

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

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

No one saw the recession coming.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

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

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

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

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.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

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

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

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

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.

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.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

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

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

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.

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

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.

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.

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

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

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

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

I love big business!

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

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.‘

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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.

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

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

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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

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?‘

Trust is central to an economy that works.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

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

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

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

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

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