Tim Reid Quotes

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

It's public news my dad was up and down financially.

You would hear stories of people that lost their houses. I remember people who had their whole lives turned upside down. I think people did learn lessons from the '80s.

I've been in hard times.

I would still be at Milan if it weren't for their financial problems.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

Now we've got lots of freedom and no money.

There is something wrong when we had more bankruptcies last year than college graduates.

The United States economy is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where the other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit runs out the game will stop.

The current crisis is not simply a market failure in which prices are not functioning properly, but a profound loss of faith in money’s capacity to tell the truth.

Nasty financial crises tend to be even worse political ones.

I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union.