In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I… — Ari Up Copy Share Image
The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
ComicsAlliance asked if I wanted to do some holiday comics using a new layout and I said ‘HELLO, NEVER IN MY NEAR-DECADE… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our… — Dennis Cardoza Copy Share Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age,… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it… — Henry W. Kendall Copy Share Image
A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for… — Aden Young Copy Share Image
It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering,… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. I can't relate to it either, as for… — Vinnie Vincent Copy Share Image
The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
