Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the…

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

— Richard J. Needham

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are…

— H. L. Mencken

The Depression, which started in 1929 was rather mild from 1929 to 1930. And, indeed, in my opinion would have been over in 1931…

— Milton Friedman

When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews.…

— Jerry Robinson

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

— James Meade

I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that…

— Henry Rosovsky

In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they…

— Alan M. Taylor

We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the…

— Daniel Fried

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I…

— Noam Chomsky

Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with…

— James Frain

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a…

— Tom Glazer

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned…

— Irving Kristol

It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were…

— Bernie Sanders

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

— Colin Firth

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman