I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families…

Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the…

— Graydon Carter

I always loved country gospel from back when I was a teenager in high school and started listening to bluegrass quite a lot.

— Ry Cooder

I draw inspiration from everywhere, whether it's country, R&B, gospel.

— Jay DeMarcus

Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind…

— Mahalia Jackson

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the…

— Mark Zandi

“[W.D.] Jones later commented that people frequently helped them, 'Not because it was Bonnie and Clyde. People in them days just helped—no questions asked.”

— John Neal Phillips

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a…

— Thomas Sowell

This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this…

— Anonymous

“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb poles and…

— George Blake

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But…

— Helen Fisher

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

— Julian Barnes

Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn,…

— Bill O'Reilly

The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great…

— Stephen Moore

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became…

— Ben Bernanke