Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

The '80s have been so much doom and gloom. We've become very pessimistic.

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

This would be bad for America

You can certainly draw a picture of 2016 which makes it look like the 1930s, which, of course, is what everyone is doing.

I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did.

CNBC was completely in the dumper when I went there.

I can't help but think what would have happened if a divisive character such as Trump were president during the 2008 financial crisis, at a time when leadership, compromise, and careful analysis were critical.

The first time that I went to the United States was in 1974. I was 20 years old. America was in crisis.

Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.

America's fiscal future is frightening.

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.

Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea.

In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout - Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.

There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them.

The '80s were a lost decade.

Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

Like anybody, I look around at the world that we live in, and I find it hard to be completely positive about everything that's going on.

Flint is a big, industrial city. But when I was growing up, they had the recession, lead in the water, and all this other stuff. The city was really depleted.

The bull market, rising prices, earning lots of money, make it seem as if the good days will never end. When prices are falling and there is a recession, that also feels as though it will last for ever. Politics is the same. People simply can't imagine changing circumstances.

Well, 2009 was a tough year.