I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
“an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.” — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Can’t you do just a little bit more? pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries)” — J.G. Morrison Copy Share Image
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman Copy Share Image
No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Hoovers didn't like Democrats because of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's libelous partisan attacks on my great-grandfather Herbert Hoover, tethering him to the Great… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it… — John Raese Copy Share Image
My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the… — Veronica Webb Copy Share Image
In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New… — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
“The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Starting in 1792 with George Washington, there were financial crises every ten to fifteen years. Panics, bank runs, credit freezes, crashes, depressions.… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five—a reasonable notion when… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“It was the uniform of a time and place, of a nearly extinct species—the belligerent middle-American redneck who had fought in Korea,… — Matthew Louis Copy Share Image
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, America has trouble repairing its magnificent trails, so that collapsed bridges and washed-out sections are sometimes left unrepaired. We were rich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did. — Kasey Chambers Copy Share Image
One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression—but it won’t stop another bubble.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment. — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
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