Growth rates were highest in the 1960s at 4.55 percent for the decade, when we created Medicare, Medicaid, and the Great Society… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi's ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
In the 1960s and into the '70s, everyone in their own way was trying to open up the musical horizon. There shouldn't… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
There is a sense of feeling larger than your own life when you're in some common mission together. You have to hope… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
With hindsight, we recognize that the social and moral confusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s is part of a cultural… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and… — Jean-Francois Chevrier Copy Share Image
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
It was a time period in the 1960, when a generation of souls looked at the established society, looked at the pettiness,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Television from its inception had the number one goal to alienate as few people as possible. That's why if you look at… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years.… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs… — Henry Chesbrough Copy Share Image
I think everybody did their share of experimenting in the 1960s with drugs. My story is real simple. I was taking amphetamines… — Tommy James Copy Share Image
I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then,… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“You have to conclude that your country has run amuck, that the people responsible are insane, that you can not trust your… — James Drought Copy Share Image
Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each other. Today?… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food… — Patricia Stephens Due Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
