But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of… — Nick Rahall 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
The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often… — Charlie Munger 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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul 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
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. — Ronald Reagan 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 Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
“the primordial artifact- of the Kaaba of canonical economics today is the claim that the free market somehow caused, and failed to… — Axel Kaiser 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
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
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was… — Adolph L. Reed Jr Copy Share Image
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning… — Kevin O'Leary 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
