Business community Quote by Jane Mayer

Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate…

— Denis Hayes

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years…

— Ted Nordhaus

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement,…

— Thomas Frank

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and…

— Richard M. Nixon

I just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time is about…

— Jerry Saltz

In the 1950s and 1960s, an explosion of great corporate jobs, together with a restricted supply of labor, produced healthy wage growth.

— Edward Conard

In the 1970s the government propped up managers who couldn't run their industries properly. Nowadays they prop up our lousy managers who can't run…

— Harry Enfield

“If you were born in 1950 and were in the top ten percent, everything got better for twenty years automatically. Then, after the late…

— George Packer

“During the previous eight years of Republican rule, this conservative corporate elite had consolidated its power, amassing enormous sway over the U.S. government’s regulatory…

— Jane Mayer

The rise of a new kind of political science in the 1960s has been driving a wedge between political insiders and voters ever since.…

— Heather Cox Richardson

From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

— Charles Koch

“Yet the story line blaming environmental activists for its problems proved irresistible. Life magazine produced an elegiac photo essay called “End of a Company…

— Jane Mayer