I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“both the Great Depression and World War II directly contributed to the Great Leap.” — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots. — James K. Glassman Copy Share Image
America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression. — Jim Gray Copy Share Image
These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated. — James K. Glassman Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. — Jerry Stiller Copy Share Image
There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash. — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most. — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was the drive-in restaurant, a product of the Great Depression’s crimp on the free-wheeling lifestyle that had grown up around movie-happy… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
We call for a green New Deal, like the New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression, but in this… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“She wondered what it was about storytelling that made people want it almost as much as food and water, even more so… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders …… — Harry Leslie Smith Copy Share Image
Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
“When I was young I wanted to be just like him. One of the charm, of a bright orange smile and muscular… — Larsen Bowker Copy Share Image
“Born on St. Valentine’s Day in 1913, Jimmy Hoffa was seven years older than Frank Sheeran. Yet both grew to manhood in… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“In surveys, a majority consistently rank FDR near the top of the list for presidential greatness, so it is likely they would… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
“This crisis didn’t have to happen. America had a boom-and-bust cycle from the 1790s to the 1930s, with a financial panic every… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
“Central to any understanding of stress, health and disease is the concept of adaptiveness. Adaptiveness is the capacity to respond to external… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“It was a generation growing in its disillusionment about the deepening recession and the backroom handshakes and greedy deals for private little… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
“Back in July 2003, he’d written them a long essay on the causes and consequences of what he took to be a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image