Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.

Austerity [in the Defense Department] meant that risks had to be managed, not eliminated.

When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.

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

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies.

I've made more cuts than any governor has ever made.

You will see the President being very, very tough on spending.

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

We cannot cut our way to prosperity.

Political leaders cannot survive as advocates of near-permanent austerity on the basis of directives imposed from abroad.

I would submit a balanced budget if elected president, and it would be painful.

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

You know, even people who talk about cutting spending and they go 'That's not the spending that I was actually talking about that you're supposed to be cutting.' Well, we have to be looking across the board.

I think growing an economy is a good way to help with a deficit, but ultimately, it's about fiscal discipline and responsible spending - and smart decisions.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.