I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We've made real progress digging our way out of policies that gave us two wars & the worst economic crisis since the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue. — Andrew Mellon 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
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
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the… — Barack Obama 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
Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
'Rainwater' was particularly special because it was a complete departure from the suspense novels. It's set in the Great Depression and based… — Sandra Brown 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
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in… — Will Rogers 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
We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We should recall that during the Second World War and the Great Depression there was an upsurge in popular, radical democracy. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I don't feel that there is anything deep in the political culture that prevents "educating the masses." I'm old enough to recall… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when… — Jerry Ash 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
“Gen Zers were small children on 9/11/01. They graduated from high school and (maybe) went through college or university during the deepest… — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
“the cotton fields and strawberry patches of a much harsher world whose tragedies and daily burdens had blunted her temperament and quelled… — James Webb 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
“Making money in the markets is tough. The brilliant trader and investor Bernard Baruch put it well when he said, “If you… — Ray Dalio 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
“Milwaukee used to be flush with good jobs. But throughout the second half of the twentieth century, bosses in search of cheap… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
