Great Depression Quotes - Page 2

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in American history. The Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and '86. And the same thing can happen here again. Democrats just cannot let it.

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

I don't worry about new home sales

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now.

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.

Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.

Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

I know many of you are hurting and angry about the economy, and I don't blame you. It's the worst economy since the Great Depression. When consumers can't buy and businesses won't expand for lack of customers, the government has to be the purchaser and employer of last resort. We learned that in the Great Depression, but Republicans obviously didn't - and they've blocked every jobs program I've offered.

I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem.