I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eventually the United States became the latter arsenal and bank of the allies, and acquired a direct interest in allied victory that… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed,… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone. — Pierre Cardin Copy Share Image
Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y.… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Copy Share Image
the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image