American Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

— Edward Conard

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had…

— Bill Bryson

Growth rates were highest in the 1960s at 4.55 percent for the decade, when we created Medicare, Medicaid, and the Great Society poverty programs…

— Neera Tanden

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system,…

— Fareed Zakaria

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

— Peter O'Toole

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

— Hank Azaria

The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still a culture…

— Tony Judt

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900…

— Adam Davidson

The '60s were an amazing time.

— Peter Max

During the 1960s, rising real wages for low-income and high-income workers, due in part to rapid economic growth and the spread of unionization, worked…

— Stephanie Coontz

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

— Tariq Ali

“The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.”

— Sara Sheridan