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History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. -- Erskine Bowles
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration. -- Russell Baker
Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers. -- Michael Showalter
It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable. -- Johann Lamont
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. -- Arthur Henderson
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another. -- Iris Chang
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. -- Paul Ryan
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity. -- Emily Blunt
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. -- Barack Obama
In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity. -- Ban Ki-moon
If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom. -- Marc Faber
There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected. -- Jean-Francois Cope
F.D.R. had an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions in 1933 when he drove 15 major bills through the Congress, and super majorities in the House and the Senate in 1935 when he won passage of Social Security. -- Robert Dallek
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels. -- Camille Paglia
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it. -- Jeb Hensarling
My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help. -- Lech Walesa
The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. -- Erin Duffy
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education. -- Tom Vilsack
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food. -- Imelda Marcos
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen. -- Muhammad Yunus
Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a conspiracy, on the economic crisis, that he blamed the high inflation that sabotaged him on the United States, and that he was frequently accusing the little lambs of Nixon and Kissinger of a coup. But everything became known later. -- Nicolas Maduro
I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years. -- Kevin Rudd
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat? -- Thomas Friedman
The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years. -- Yanis Varoufakis
The crisis in black America is threefold economic political and spiritual. -- Cornel West
What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis. -- Rush Limbaugh
[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts. -- George W. Bush
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. -- James Tobin
Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis. -- Christine Lagarde
The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis. -- Arnaud Montebourg
Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously? -- Robin Williams
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope. -- Ronald Reagan
Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self. -- Mohamed El-Erian
The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis. -- James Cook
The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many. -- Joseph Stiglitz
We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime. -- Barack Obama
We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government. -- Jeb Bush
Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis. -- Alvaro de Vasconcelos
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis. -- J. B. Pritzker
Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy. -- Vince Cable
The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs. -- Joey Badass
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe, -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves. -- Joe Miller
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. -- George W. Bush
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
We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully. -- Lee Myung-bak
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations. -- Kshama Sawant
We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down -- Andre Glucksmann
Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes. -- Joseph Stalin
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones. -- Nouriel Roubini
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
There is no real answer (to the U.S. economic crisis) but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
If we are to maintain our position as a global economic leader, we've got to end the govern-by-crisis mentality that sets us back instead of moving us forward. -- Scott Peters
The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. -- Jerry A. Webman
Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population. -- Michel Chossudovsky
Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts. -- Michelle Malkin
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power. -- Richard Trumka
Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis. -- Barack Obama
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. -- Joe Biden
Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn -- Dmitry Medvedev
That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on. -- Judy Woodruff
However, crisis in world trade is, among other things, the result of using political tools in competition or simply for achieving political objectives with the help of economic restrictions. -- Vladimir Putin
Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. -- Ludwig von Mises
First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis. -- Richard M. Daley
I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done. -- Barack Obama
For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad strategy-and I will not tolerate it as president. -- Barack Obama
The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together. -- Stephane Abrial
Barack Obama is a president who, when he had to deal with the 2008 economic crisis, has led the American economy on a completely different path than the one that Europe has chosen eight years later. -- Alexis Tsipras

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