Norman Davies Quotes

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.

The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.

The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.

For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and they don't like it.

It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

I think it's essential that we do more than talk about austerity measures and cutting.

If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed the misery inflicted on so many during the 1930s.

The Tories should treat working families with more respect.

The people in Washington are getting rich with our money. Under President Barack Obama, the federal government swelled to record size, and it took more and more of our money to pay for it. Who benefitted? Not Missouri farmers or workers.

If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right.

This deficit that we have threatens our very way of life, and everything needs to be on the table.

The working class who toil everyday to pay their rent and put food on their families' tables are tired of being lectured by the fat cats in Washington and Brussels who preach what we need and when we need it.

The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.

Governments need to lay out a credible path to reducing their deficits in the medium term, but without excessively enfeebling an already weak recovery. That means raising retirement ages and overhauling pensions; putting in place the budget rules and institutions that will curb future profligacy; and favouring spending cuts over tax increases.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.

There is going to have to be austerity in the state of Kentucky.

The worry in Labour circles is that, when pressed, Gordon Brown instinctively moved to cut the benefits of the poor rather than upset businesses and the wealthy.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

I think it's true - economically, you want to bake a bigger cake rather than slicing up an existing cake differently.

I think 'austerity' is a much abused word. I prefer to call it 'fiscal discipline' or financial, 'financial competency.'

As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing their homes, wondering how their kids will make their way in the world.

For far too long, Washington has denied the American citizens of Puerto Rico vital human services and adequate health care funding.