“under the Marshall Plan, the United States offered aid to any country needing it, provided that they were not affiliated with Communism.” — Hourly History Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the past, Americans have brought forth their best in times of crisis. After Trump abased our country on the world stage… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
“It is arguable, especially in retrospect, that the Marshall Plan had some unfortunate, though unintended, consequences. Together with the Truman Doctrine, it… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy;… — Gianni Agnelli Copy Share Image
“For Americans, Acts 16:9 is the high-fructose corn syrup of Bible verses--an all-purpose ingredient we'll stir into everything from the ink on… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“And it was no accident, in the late forties, that the makers of American policy, unwilling to backtrack with the public, began… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
The final objective is not to distribute the migrants among various European countries but to prevent them from entering Europe and from… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
“In my generation we did a lot of pleasure chasing—we, the generation responsible for today’s twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds. Before they… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image