So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers.… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
“The first decade of the twenty-first century was a crazy bookend to the twentieth, opening with a second Pearl Harbor and ending… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
'The Little Rascals' was set against the background of the Great Depression: the characters were living in poverty. It's just that it… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
“Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population? Of course I did. First of all, we had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down… — Alexi Giannoulias Copy Share Image
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
“Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a… — Jim Powell Copy Share Image
Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that… — David Lereah Copy Share Image
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it.… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
“The current moral decay perceived in society has often been blamed on the lack of God in the public schools. During the… — Eric Welch Copy Share Image
[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“It is still possible to find people who believe that government policy did not end the Great Depression and undergird the Great… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
“Chuck Palahniuk “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think math, common sense, and our history shows us that's not a recipe for job growth. Look, we've tried this. We've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“the Occupy Movement flared up and began setting up tents in public parks all around the nation, from New York City to… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
If we go back to the birth of 'Superman' and 'Batman' in America in the '30s, they were created because of events… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
These are American success stories. And yet the centerpiece of the Presidents entire re-election campaign is attacking success. Is it any wonder… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“During extraordinary historical moments—both world wars, the aftermath of the Great Depression, or the peak of the civil rights era—the usual categories… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
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