Roberto Azevedo Quotes

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

The economy is most important. It is off track.

I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.

I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think that's when people look to film and to spirituality.

The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.

We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating.

To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

I don't think it's the end of the world even if we have a recession. We'll pull back out of it again. No big deal.