Austerity Quotes

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

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

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

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.

The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

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

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

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

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that.