Source: https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/how-credit-cards-can-help-during-a-recession/
“For myself, I would much prefer to be stuck with Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament, than stuck with George Bush in the White House. It is the difference between losing your wallet at a cock fight and losing all your credit cards forever, along with your job and your house and your ability to earn enough money to pay off your sports-gambling debts or even a six-pack on game day...”
"What's Better Than the Tournament?' (18 March 2004)
2000s
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American journalist and author 1937–2005Related quotes

“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”
Quoted in The Observer 13 April 1958
Source: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

Speech in Jersey City, New Jersey (1 September 1980) http://www.slate.com/id/2201249/
1980s
Context: Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it's a definition he wants, I'll give him one. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Appeal to the military to not participate in the coup attempt, while standing on a tank during troop movements against the Russian White House. (19 August 1991)
1990s
“It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.”
Source: Magic Burns

A FINAL THOUGHT BEFORE THE SHOW https://web.archive.org/web/20041103063054/http://www.ejectejecteject.com:80/archives/000111.html (31 October 2004)
2000s

Variant: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.